Bug 847258 – exit with error when a parameter in answer file is defined more than once

Bug 847258 - exit with error when a parameter in answer file is defined more than once

Summary:	exit with error when a parameter in answer file is defined more than once

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	ovirt-engine-setup (Show other bugs)
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Version:	3.1.0
Hardware:	Unspecified Unspecified

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Moran Goldboim
QA Contact:	Pavel Stehlik
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Keywords:	Reopened

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Reported:	2012-08-10 06:04 EDT by David Jaša
Modified:	2015-09-22 09 EDT (History)
CC List:	10 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2013-09-20 04:25:28 EDT
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Description David Jaša 2012-08-10 06:04:58 EDT

Description of problem:
exit with error when a parameter in answer file is defined more than once

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rhevm-setup-3.1.0-11.el6ev.noarch / si13.2

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Copy some configuration option to other part of the file
2. run engine-setup --answer-file=${FILE}
3.
  
Actual results:
engine-setup takes last occurence of duplicate value for further processing

Expected results:
engine-setup exits with error that the option is entered more than once

Additional info:
silly error on my account but took me quite a while to figure out...

Comment 1 Itamar Heim 2013-02-10 02:05:32 EST

Closing old bugs. If this issue is still relevant/important in current version, please re-open the bug.

Comment 2 Alon Bar-Lev 2013-09-20 04:25:28 EDT

The answer files in 3.3 creates an otopi configuration file which is environment file, which is standard python configfile.

It is valid to specify multiple entries of same variable within one file and among multiple files that are loaded by order.

This enables override of values with more specific configuration, for example:

# engine-setup --config-append=base.conf --config-append=my-server.conf

Also in previous setup, taking the last value was appropriate.

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