Request for etcdctl alias autoconnect

[Charles Butler]

On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 11:44 AM Jamie Strandboge <jamie at canonical.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, 2017-03-06 at 17:26 +0000, Charles Butler wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I think this in itself would be preferable.  My concerns would be
> collision
> > while the deb is still installed which is a short window in the charm
> path.
> >
> > I think `snap alias etcd.etcdctl etcdctl` is the desired outcome here, so
> > we aren't changing commands. I've worked around this in the interim by
> > setting aliases in layer.yaml for paths. I would prefer to drop this
> > workaround in favor of aliases for the snap.
> >
>
> Are you saying that you like that the alias is now automatically applied
> or that
> you want to remove the auto-alias and have the alias to continue to be
> manually
> applied?
>
>
Correct me if i'm wrong here - i'm still pretty new to the feature.

Auto-aliasing would return feedback if there is a detected collision
correct? So I think requesting it at point of install automatically is the
desired behavior. If you encounter a scenario where an etcdctl exists, you
can handle that collision manually and then setup the alias 'snap alias
etcd.etcdctl etcd'.

I think this outlines how I expected it to work. Sorry if that was less
clear in my prior mail.


> > On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 7:45 AM Mark Shuttleworth <
> > mark.shuttleworth at canonical.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Hi folks
> > >
> > > The etcd database includes a client utility, etcdctl, which is included
> > > in the etcd snap as etcd.etcdctl.
> > >
> > > I'm writing to the list to proposed that be aliased to the top-level
> > > etcdctl on installation of etcd by default. The name of the utility is
> > > very distinctive and highly unlikely to conflict with any other use of
> > > the name.
> > >
> > > Thank you,
> > >
> > > Mark
> > >
> > >
> > >
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