[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 0006 Removes sssd.conf after uninstall.

[Martin Kosek]

On 08/17/2012 03:04 PM, Tomas Babej wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The sssd.conf file is no longer left behind in case sssd was not
> configured before the installation.
> 
> https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/2740
> 
> Tomas
> 

I found few issues with this approach:

1) (major) We do not want to delete sssd.conf when there were more domain's
that just the IPA one configured (was_sssd_configured variable).

I would consider changing it like that:

...
if was_sssd_installed and was_sssd_configured:
        # SSSD was installed before our installation, config now is restored,
restart it
        ...
elif not was_sssd_configured:
    - remove sssd.conf file (or move it to sssd.conf.deleted as Stephen
suggested if we want to be more defensive)
...

If we choose the rename operation over delete operation, we should inform a
user about the rename as well.

2) (minor) As I mentioned earlier, as a rule of thumb it is better to catch
more specific exceptions that just bare "except" clause, PEP8 should contain
more info to this cause. In this case, I would catch just for OSError exception.

Martin