Unmanagement ideas

[ctheune]

Unmanagement ideas

[ctheune]

There's also another instance where unmanagement would have reduced the complexity of a change massively:
https://gitlab.flyingcircus.io/flyingcircus/fc.directory.deployment/-/merge_requests/65

[PhilTaken]

A similar approach for files might be temporary states, where intermediate files are stored in a temp directory.
Archives for example, where you only require the contents of the archive, not the archive itself, could be downloaded to a temporary location, unpacked there and subsequently deleted without requiring the user to manage the download location or the deletion of the archive manually.

In python pseudo-code this might look like

with S3Download(...) as archive:
    extract(archive, inplace=True)
    copy(f"{archive}/README.txt", f"{workdir}/README.txt")

# the archive is being deleted right after the copy or exists only in `/tmp`

I am not sure how well that would fit the batou configure-verify-update model though, maybe a wrapper component like

self += TempDir(S3Download(...))
self.temp_archive = self._
...

could work better?