Unable to kill-controller

[Horacio Duran]

I might be biased by years of apt-get but purge makes me think that you are
going to do what kill is supposed to do, forget sound more aligned whit
what you are really aiming to.

On Wednesday, 6 April 2016, Andrew Wilkins <andrew.wilkins at canonical.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 2:29 AM Cheryl Jennings <
> cheryl.jennings at canonical.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','cheryl.jennings at canonical.com');>> wrote:
>
>> Relevant bug:  https://bugs.launchpad.net/juju-core/+bug/1553059
>>
>> We should provide a way to clean up controllers without making the user
>> manually edit juju's files.
>>
>
> Unless anyone objects, or has a better spelling, I will be adding a
> command to do this:
>
>     juju purge-controller <controller-name>
>
> The command will require a "-y" or prompt for confirmation, like
> kill-controller. It will not attempt to destroy the controller, it will
> just remove the details of it from the client.
>
> (Alternative suggestion for spelling: "juju forget-controller".
> Purge-controller may suggest that we're purging a controller of its
> contents, rather than purging the controller from the client?)
>
> Cheers,
> Andrew
>
> On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 7:05 AM, Nate Finch <nate.finch at canonical.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','nate.finch at canonical.com');>> wrote:
>>
>>> This just happened to me, too.  Kill-controller needs to work if at all
>>> possible.  That's the whole point.  And yes, users may not hit specific
>>> problems, but devs do, and that wastes our time trying to figure out how to
>>> manually clean up the garbage.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 8:33 AM Rick Harding <rick.harding at canonical.com
>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','rick.harding at canonical.com');>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 6:56 PM Andrew Wilkins <
>>>> andrew.wilkins at canonical.com
>>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','andrew.wilkins at canonical.com');>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> In a non-beta release we would make sure that the config changes
>>>>> aren't backwards incompatible.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I think this is the key thing. I think that kill-controller is an
>>>> exception to this rule. I think we should always at least give the user the
>>>> ability to remove their stuff and start over with the new alpha/beta/rc
>>>> release. I'd like to ask us to explore making kill-controller an exception
>>>> to this policy and that if tests prove we can't bootstrap on one beta and
>>>> kill with trunk that it's a blocking bug for us.
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