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[Tycho Andersen <tycho.andersen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 04:07:16PM +1000, Julian Edwards wrote:
> On 23/04/14 09:31, Julian Edwards wrote:
> > On Tuesday 22 Apr 2014 11:42:57 Gavin Panella wrote:
> >> No, but Tycho does care a fig, and he's speaking for the community cloud
> >> installer. It needs to be able to run m-i-p-f and know that it has
> >> finished. There's no good way to do that right now via the API. We
> >> should add it, but in the meantime it would be sensible to preserve
> >> invocation from the command-line. Also, for better or worse, m-i-p-f
> >> forms part of MAAS's API, in a broad sense of the term.
> > 
> > I'm not suggesting that we get rid of it until there's a replacement.
> > 
> > I would be open to keeping it provided the settings are still in the DB (ie 
> > make it a dedicated api script).
> > 
> > Ultimately, external systems should not be relying on internal scripts that 
> > are not part of the official API surface.
> 
> It turns out that we have an API call to query available boot images, so
> once the import is kicked off via the API, it can then poll for completion.
> 
> So unless I am missing something, there's no blocker to getting rid of
> the command line script?

Except if the script fails, we have no way to detect completion, and
we sit in a poll loop forever.

\t

> 
> J
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