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This patch completely  gets rid of fping
 - replace all fping invocations with TcpPing calls
 - update documentation accordingly.
 - associated cleanups (use constant for localhost IP, use more sensible
   defaults for TcpPing and _use_ those)

Reviewed-by: iustinp

Since modules are not directly executables, remove the shebang from
them. This helps with lintian warnings.

Also make the autogenerated _autoconf.py contain two comment lines at
the beginning, like the other modules.

Reviewed-by: ultrotter

- Document the expected change to errors.InvalidOS
- Always pass the additional argument
- Modify DiagnoseOS output to show the path


Reviewed-by: iustinp, imsnah

- Add NEWS file with major changes between versions.
- Bump RPC version number
- No longer serialize in RPC, but just convert to dict

Old Pickle based configuration files can be converted using the cfgupgrade
utility.

Reviewed-by: iustinp, ultrotter

This patch adds support for instance rename operation at all remaining
layers: RPC, OpCode/LU and CLI.

Reviewed-by: imsnah

Reviewed-by: iustin

This changes the raising of exceptions from:
  raise Exception, value
to
  raise Exception(value)

as the first form will be removed in python-3000 and the second form is
preferred now.

The changes also involve a few cases of changing from raising standard
exceptions and use our own ones.

The new version also fixes many pylint-generated warnings, especially in
ganeti-noded where I changed many methods to @staticmethod.

There is no functionality changed (barring any bugs).

Reviewed-by: iustinp

Reviewed-by: iustinp

handling, as it can be static and outside of ganeti.

This also means we can get rid of a lot of infrastructure too:
  - the master/node config files checkers
  - one rpc function

- Create all --output options using a constant
- Put node checking code from opcodes into a single function
- Do the same for output fields

Reviewed-by: iustinp