The deployment code uses slots to configure various files by substituting it with the real value. The slot variables are hard-coded creating a maintenance issue and limiting the ability to add new parameters without changing the base code. It might be possible to use the parameter names directly as slots to avoid these problems.

For example, a slot is used to configure registry_instance:

PKI_SERVER_XML_CONF=[PKI_SERVER_XML_CONF]

The slot itself is defined in pkislots.cfg:

PKI_SERVER_XML_CONF_SLOT=[PKI_SERVER_XML_CONF]

And the value is defined in pkiparser.py:

config.pki_master_dict['PKI_SERVER_XML_CONF_SLOT'] =\
    config.pki_master_dict['pki_target_server_xml']

Ideally the parameter itself should be used as slot directly:

PKI_SERVER_XML_CONF=[pki_target_server_xml]