Bug 750304

Summary:	Drift metadata update has problems
Product:	[Other] RHQ Project	Reporter:	Jay Shaughnessy <jshaughn>
Component:	Plugins	Assignee:	Jay Shaughnessy <jshaughn>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	Mike Foley <mfoley>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	4.2	CC:	hrupp
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Target Release:	JON 3.0.0, RHQ 4.3.0
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Fixed In Version:	4.3	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Bug Blocks:	707225

Description Jay Shaughnessy 2011-10-31 16:13:56 UTC

When updating plugins that make changes to the plugin defined drift definitions there are a few issues.

1) If there are user-defined templates they can get removed accidentally

2) If there are attached definitions to the updated templates they can cause FK constraint issues.

3) There is no protection against directory update on an existing template. This can cause issues for pinned templates.

Comment 1 Jay Shaughnessy 2011-11-01 18:22:02 UTC

master         commit eb021c14ddf1f673a500e237c161bf480fc74bb6
release_jon3.x commit 89cb974ef54fd2dcf79a74b6ba466d85c831e657

TEST NOTE:
Testing drift meta-data changes is maybe a little difficult as the easiest
way to do this is to build updated versions of the plugins and then
deploy them to your server.  Still, it's doable by unzipping the
plugin, tweaking the rhq-plugin.xml, rezipping and then dropping into
the rhqserverhome/plugins dir.

See:

http://rhq-project.org/display/RHQ/Drift+Management#DriftManagement-Howtohandlepluginupdatestothedrifttemplates

For expected plugin update behavior.

Comment 2 Mike Foley 2011-11-10 18:35:36 UTC

this is not really something customers do