> Any update on the PPA hosting archived versions? It's becoming very
> painful to use Salt or any other CMS when we want to freeze to a
> specific version. Fixing that problem would allow us to get past the
> issue of the deb restarting the service.
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> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Aaron Westendorf <
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> We just discovered today that this is further complicated because
> the PPA is only hosting the current version, so Salt fails when
> trying to apply the ruleset and ensure the version we froze is
> installed.
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> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Aaron Westendorf
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> Yeah, that's what I'm getting at. Even "start on first install"
> has problems in that there may be other preconditions yet to be
> set, though it is less problematic than automatically restarting.
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> For now, I've changed our Salt states to freeze to a specific
> version so that we won't be surprised by a process restart.
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> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 6:38 PM, Gavin M. Roy
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> I believe he’s saying that when you install the deb (or
> upgrade it) it automatically starts or restarts
> rabbitmq-server, causing less than desirable behavior.
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> Date: June 20, 2014 at 1:07:33 PM
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>> On 17/06/14 15:54, Aaron Westendorf wrote:
>> > We're using the PPA for rabbit but the current debian files are not
>> > suitable for production deployments because they stop and restart the
>> > process. I understand the desire to start the process if it was not
>> > already running, but embedding the restart logic in the deb means that
>> > users have no control over the process. As it is very common to use the
>> > PPA within the context of a configuration management system (Salt, Chef,
>> > etc), it would be best to leave that decision up to the user.
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>> What do you mean by "restart logic"?
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>> I could see the point in adding some START_THE_SERVER
>> variable to
>> /etc/default/rabbitmq-server, would that help?
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>> Cheers, Simon
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