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Cannot install Reservoir sites using config management best practices #47
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Why doesn't this same situation affect the standard profile which also does not provide default uuid's for the configuration it provides? |
I haven't installed anything other than lightning in a while. I'd have to test, but I suspect this does affect the standard profile. |
See #33 I delete the part of Reservoir that installs default content and then I can install from configuration. |
I just found this core issue that might help to resolve this in the long run, and also indicates that adding default uuids is a good short term solution: https://www.drupal.org/node/1613424 |
Related problem that would also be solved by simply making the auto-creation of demo content optional: #54 |
I support #54 — already commented there. I still don't fully grok why we need our configuration to contain UUIDs — I strongly remember that one of the firm design goals was to not have UUIDs in our config. I even remember (critical?) Drupal core issues to remove UUIDs from default configuration! So I'd much rather do #54. Would that solve the entire problem? |
Also, if this is a best practice (which would directly contradict my past experience), then where is it documented on |
This problem is identical to one described for Lightning, except a little worse: https://github.com/acquia/lightning/issues/387
Long story short, it's impossible to install a Reservoir site and then import configuration (i.e. from
config/default
) as you would normally do for a standard configuration management workflow. If you try, you will get errors like this:The reason is that Reservoir does not provide a static/default UUID for its fields, content types (article), and vocabulary (tags). Thus, Drupal picks a random UUID for each at install time. Then when you try to import the existing site configuration, it has a different UUID, so Drupal perceives it as a completely new configuration entity and tries to delete the existing one. But it can't do that if it already contains content.
A simple solution that we're also trying with Lightning is for the profile to provide default UUIDs.
Long-term, there should also be a way to disable the auto-creation of content at install time. This will at least prevent the error (although it will still require running entity-updates, as with the Lightning issue).
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