This repository contains the lists of modules (as well as states, runners, engines, etc) which will get removed from Salt.
A file can fall into one of three categories.
- Files that are core to Salt and will remain in the Salt codebase (core-modules.txt)
- Files that will be moved out of the Salt codebase but continue to be maintained by the Salt Core Team (core-ext-modules.txt)
- Files that will be moved out into a dump repository and will no longer be maintained by the Salt Core Team (community-ext-modules.txt)
- Files which serve no purpose on Salt's runtime, for example, test related files, which can and should be created when running the test suite, if need be. (delete-modules.txt)
- Files that are needed for for the test suite, these are things we want remain in the salt codebase but also want to preserve community extensions dump repository (test-support.txt)
We'll use git filter-repo to migrate modules to a separate repositoy while
retaining their git history. Once the migration has taken place, we'll do a
git rm against the main salt repository.
Install filter-repo (Debian)
sudo apt-get install -y git-filter-repo
Now make a fresh clone and run filter repo. Starting in the root of this repository.
FILESDIR=$(pwd)
cd /tmp
git clone git@github.com:saltstack/salt.git community-extensions
cd community-extensions
git filter-repo --dry --paths-from-file=$FILESDIR/community-ext-modules.txt
If eveything looks good... Send it!
git filter-repo --paths-from-file=$FILESDIR/community-ext-modules.txt --paths-from-file=$FILESDIR/test-support.txt
Now we can remove the migrated files from the salt repo.
cd ~/src/salt
git rm -- $(cat $FILESDIR/core-ext-modules.txt)
git commit -m 'Removing core extension modules'