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Re: [Fab-user] A couple of questions


From: Jeff Forcier
Subject: Re: [Fab-user] A couple of questions
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:17:09 -0700

Hi Tomasz,

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Tomasz Melcer <address@hidden> wrote:

> 1. I often use chroot for testing. Are there any helpers planned to make
> using chroot easier?

Fabric executes a new shell session for each run/sudo -- thus
"stateful" things like chroot have to be faked. For example, 'cd' is
implemented as a context manager slapping an implicit "cd directory
&&" in front of commands.

If chroot can be supported in this way (and it seems it can, by
'chroot <command>'?) then we might accept a pull request to add a
chroot context manager.

> 2. Pipe from remote command to local file. Is it possible to reproduce this 
> in fabric?

That depends a lot on Paramiko's support for it; it could be
impossible or very tricky. Sounds like the inverse of
https://github.com/fabric/fabric/issues/289.

With the current implementation, your best bet is probably to use a
temporary on-disk file, or a ramdisk if that's worth the effort to
avoid hitting disk.

> 3. Is any work done on [1] ("Make use of ssh_config where possible")? I
> cannot find the branch mentioned in the last comment.

That's probably https://github.com/goosemo/fabric/tree/3-ssh-config ,
but Morgan can probably confirm/deny. That branch is likely a little
out of date now too.

Regardless, the ssh_config stuff is a moderately high priority so
it'll probably be included in one of the upcoming (post-1.3) releases.

Note from that ticket that Paramiko is a limiting factor here too --
just because one can read in values from ssh_config doesn't mean all
of ssh's functionality works yet, so some options may be no-ops in
Fabric. That said, the basic stuff like host aliases and such is
possible to support and would be a good first step.

Best,
Jeff

-- 
Jeff Forcier
Unix sysadmin; Python/Ruby engineer
http://bitprophet.org



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