Patches for allowing upgradeprovision to upgrade SD

[Matthieu Patou]

Andrew,
I integrated your patchs,
I had a few errors that I fixed in the last 2 patches.
The whole thing is correctly working now !




On 26/11/2009 19:59, Matthieu Patou wrote:
> Hello Andrew and Nadya,
>
> So following the morning talk we had with andrew regardings SD, I
> introduced a new control: recalculate_sd that is used in the descriptor
> module.
> It is used by the update script to force the recalculation of the SD of
> an object as if the object was created (well at least it's the intent of
> it ...).
>
> It seems to work pretty well as I've been able to upgrade 2 differents
> provision from 2 differents times.
>
> The script is for the moment making the simplistic but quite ok
> assumption that nobody has changed the SD set by the provision.
> This assumption has to be changed but it's to my mind very important to
> offer to people running alpha8 or older a possibility to update SD as
> the new acl module is already making a lot of checks (that didn't make
> my life too simple ...).
>
> As it's a bit late I didn't take the time to merge with the change
> introduced by Andrew on the provision script this morning I'll try to do
> it tomorrow but andrew feel free to do it if my patches please you !
>
> Matthieu.