Rudder

It is important than we continue to use a specific syslog facility, ideally still local6. Otherwise we will have no other way to distinguish Rudder log messages from others.

I suggest you open another ticket for the syntax issues, because they are not valid even in CFEngine 3.4 (although tolerated, evidently).

Jonathan CLARKE wrote:

It is important than we continue to use a specific syslog facility, ideally still local6. Otherwise we will have no other way to distinguish Rudder log messages from others.

I agree with you but I don't understand why this could have changed. The configuration was not changed. It will need some investigation.

Jonathan CLARKE wrote:

I suggest you open another ticket for the syntax issues, because they are not valid even in CFEngine 3.4 (although tolerated, evidently).

Done: #3871

Nicolas PERRON wrote:

For the moment, what I've detected incompatible are:

• The messages of CFEngine are not sent to the server as the log facility does not seem to be local6. (Into /etc/rsyslog.d/rudder-agent, the removal of the part local6 will permit to send the messages...)

Strange, I've tested it and now the use of local6 is good and the logs show us the use of this facility:

[...]
2013-10-03T14:11:21+0200  verbose: Setting abort classes from ...
2013-10-03T14:11:21+0200  verbose: SET Syslog FACILITY = LOG_LOCAL6
2013-10-03T14:11:21+0200  verbose: SET repository = /var/rudder/modified-files
[...]

CFEngine will not work with the actual CFEngine stdlib used in Rudder. We will need to update it to the latest which is transitional to the new libraries files.

That's not all, our packaging use some patches for CFEngine 3.4 but they will not work on CFEngine 3.5:

$ make
[...]
mv /tmp/rudder.7kwjgP/cfengine-3.5.2 ./cfengine-source
/usr/bin/patch -d ./cfengine-source -p1 < ./split_dist_evaluation.patch
patching file src/env_context.c
Hunk #1 FAILED at 71.
Hunk #2 FAILED at 199.
Hunk #3 FAILED at 223.
Hunk #4 FAILED at 249.
4 out of 4 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file src/env_context.c.rej
make: *** [cfengine-source] Error 1

I've checked each patches. They have all been merged and is included in CFEngine 2.5.2 except the last one about openVZ.
The patch need to be adapted but Nicolas has already made a PR for CFEngine 3.5 here: https://github.com/cfengine/core/pull/956

• comma after promiser into the file:
  • common/1.0/rudder_lib.cf (line 197)
  • common/1.0/update.cf (lines 135, 140, 145)
  • inventory/1.0/fusionAgent.cf (line 137)
• use of attribute 'owners' which does not exist anymore for body copy_from
  • common/1.0/update.cf (line 39, 59)

Nicolas PERRON wrote:

With CFEngine standard library updated, it remain some errors at the install of rudder-agent:

• comma after promiser into the file:
  • common/1.0/rudder_lib.cf (line 197)
  • common/1.0/update.cf (lines 135, 140, 145)
  • inventory/1.0/fusionAgent.cf (line 137)

These errors are only into initial promises, not in the Techniques. So this will be fixed into Rudder 2.8

• use of attribute 'owners' which does not exist anymore for body copy_from
  • common/1.0/update.cf (line 39, 59)

We are ok to remove these attributes in 2.4 which seems to be useless.

The CFEngine standard lib will not work with CFEngine 3.5.* so we will modify the CFEngine standard lib when needed and if the modification is like new version of CFEngine standard lib.

Nicolas PERRON wrote:

Nicolas PERRON wrote:

With CFEngine standard library updated, it remain some errors at the install of rudder-agent:

• comma after promiser into the file:
  • common/1.0/rudder_lib.cf (line 197)
  • common/1.0/update.cf (lines 135, 140, 145)
  • inventory/1.0/fusionAgent.cf (line 137)

These errors are only into initial promises, not in the Techniques. So this will be fixed into Rudder 2.8

This is #4013

• use of attribute 'owners' which does not exist anymore for body copy_from
  • common/1.0/update.cf (line 39, 59)

We are ok to remove these attributes in 2.4 which seems to be useless.

This is #4002

The CFEngine standard lib will not work with CFEngine 3.5.* so we will modify the CFEngine standard lib when needed and if the modification is like new version of CFEngine standard lib.

This is #4005