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    Published parameters as simple storage for generated passwords and NEO cluster name · 836309f4
    Saurabh authored
    For performance reasons, the root partition requests subpartitions during
    initialization of sections, whereas such processing should normally be done
    during the update/install phase.
    
    The consequence is that partitions may be requested whereas they depend on
    sections that fail (usually just temporarily, because of missing returned
    parameters in the first runs).
    
    For example, the request of zope partitions depends on the generation of
    passwords:
    
    1. password generated (__init__)
    2. zope partitions requested (__init__)
    3. password saved (install)
    
    As long as a failure happens between 2 and 3, zope parameters are always
    updated with a different password.
    
    In the case of NEO, the instanciation of zope partitions currently succeeds even
    if the list of master nodes is missing (note that there is a minor bug to fix
    here: whenever a NEO storage is not the main one, zope processes may start too
    early, and the user may have to restart zopes manually). The 'inituser_done'
    file is created but zope processes fail to start if NEO is used as main storage,
    and all this happens before the password was saved in the root partition
    ([neo-0-final] failing to install because 'admins' parameter returned yet).
    
    This was never an issue with ZEO because zopes start successfully at the same
    time the 'inituser_done' file is created.
    
    One way to solve this could have been to introduce a dummy dependency between
    [neo-0-final] and any other section generating a password. Quite ugly and we
    also found non-optimal to use a non-backuped file in the root partition to save
    such information, whereas we need anyway to publish them for the user.
    
    Therefore, we introduce a new 'publish-early' recipe for accessing and
    publishing desired parameters before any request of partitions. Of course,
    these must not be dropped by the usual [publish] section, and to avoid having
    to repeating them all manually, we have also added a '-extends' option to the
    'publish' recipe.
    
    We use the same technique to autogenerate and configure cluster name for NEO,
    which helps us in minimizing the number of params one has to pass for
    requesting NEO.
    
    In the 'generate.password' recipe, the 'storage-path' can now be empty, when
    there's no need to save the generated password in a file.
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