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LC is not maintained anymore. Lionel has suggested us to move from it and use No::Worries (see #7). This issue is dedicated to LC::File replacement in the context of Quattor (mainly for internal use by CAF).

LC is not maintained anymore. Lionel has suggested us to move from it and use No::Worries (see #7). This issue is dedicated to LC::Process replacement in the context of Quattor (mainly for internal use by CAF).

LC is not maintained anymore. Lionel has suggested us to move from it and use No::Worries (in CPAN, RPMs available in EPEL for EL5+). At this time we should start looking for alternatives on each of the tasks LC modules perform for us.

Over the top of my head, CAF consumes:

• Process
• File::status
• Syslog

Plus there are usages of copy and makedir. And Exceptions are cumbersome to use.

Suggestion is to open a separate issue to discuss replacement of each of perl-LC submodule used by Quattor to a avoid a long and messy discussion here. Every sub-issue must reference this one.

The current implementation of LC::Check is buggy with respect to ln when creating a hardlink on a symlink.

• ln allows to create a hardlink on a symlink whatever its target is, including a broken symlink or a direcotry, as demonstrated by the following example:

lx3/jouvin % ln -s missing_dir /tmp/broken_symlink
lx3/jouvin % ln /tmp/broken_symlink /tmp/broken_hardlink                                                                                                                  
lx3/jouvin % ls -i /tmp/broken_*
216 /tmp/broken_hardlink  216 /tmp/broken_symlink

• LC::Check::symlink checks that the target exists and is not a directory, which is too restrictive and inconsistent with ls (a comment suggests that it was intentional at a time where ln was not allowing it). There is no possible workaround for this problem: if not fixed, CAF::Path (quattor/CAF#225) should forbid it explicitely.
• LC::Check::symlink incorrectly checks the target existence if the target is a relative path: it does the same test as for a symlink (where a relative path for the symlink target is interpreted relative to the symlink parent directory) where the test should be done on the target as it was specified. It is possible to work around this problem in CAF::Path by converting the relative path to an absolute path before calling LC::Path::link.

LC is not maintained anymore. Lionel has suggested us to move from it and use No::Worries (see #7). This issue is dedicated to LC::Syslog replacement in the context of Quattor (mainly for internal use by CAF).

LC is not maintained anymore. Lionel has suggested us to move from it and use No::Worries (see #7). This issue is dedicated to LC::Exception replacement in the context of Quattor.

The RPM in master requires (wrongly) ncm-ncd and libuser.

The POM file for the release is fixed, but we'll need to enhance the Jenkins job to detect these packaging errors.