Re: [Fab-user] A couple of questions

[Tomasz Melcer]

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W dniu 19.09.2011 21:17, Jeff Forcier pisze:
> 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.

I was thinking of something different: to be able to use a chroot as a
host, instead of an ssh connection. This way I'd be able to use one task
for my test chroot and for my production server. For example:

#v+

@hosts(chroot("~/my-test-chroot"), "address@hidden")
@task
def deploy():
    rsync_project(remote_dir="/var/www")

#v-

I assume this would be a major change?

>> 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.

Yes, exactly. It doesn't seem very difficult to do, maybe I'll try later.

> 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.

Yes, that's what I'm doing now.

>> 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 out of date now too.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.

I only keep ServerAliveInterval option and aliases there.

Tomasz Melcer
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