Fedora's livecd-tools has this nifty "livecd-to-pxeboot" script for turning a bootable iso into a pxebootable image by putting the iso inside of the initrd. After playing with this for a bit and creating a small pxebootable distribution (using cobbler to manage it naturally), I ran into this bug. Since this is a stateless pxebootable distribution, there isn't a kickstart tree.
When replicating from 1 cobbler instance to another, it was blowing up. The traceback was relatively simple and the bug existed in master as well as 2.0.11, so I wrote patches for both.
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Jeff Schroeder jeffschroeder@computer.org wrote:
Fedora's livecd-tools has this nifty "livecd-to-pxeboot" script for turning a bootable iso into a pxebootable image by putting the iso inside of the initrd. After playing with this for a bit and creating a small pxebootable distribution (using cobbler to manage it naturally), I ran into this bug. Since this is a stateless pxebootable distribution, there isn't a kickstart tree.
When replicating from 1 cobbler instance to another, it was blowing up. The traceback was relatively simple and the bug existed in master as well as 2.0.11, so I wrote patches for both.
Just read that the repository has moved to github and that mpdehaan is coming back onboard. This is great news on both fronts! Sadly I wasn't the first, but the second pull request: https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/2
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Jeff Schroeder jeffschroeder@computer.org wrote:
Fedora's livecd-tools has this nifty "livecd-to-pxeboot" script for turning a bootable iso into a pxebootable image by putting the iso inside of the initrd. After playing with this for a bit and creating a small pxebootable distribution (using cobbler to manage it naturally), I ran into this bug. Since this is a stateless pxebootable distribution, there isn't a kickstart tree.
When replicating from 1 cobbler instance to another, it was blowing up. The traceback was relatively simple and the bug existed in master as well as 2.0.11, so I wrote patches for both.
Merged. This doesn't apply to release20 though, as the function that you patched was added in 2.2. If you want to fix that for release20 go for it, it would count as a maintenance patch though I'm not sure how many people would be hitting your use case and triggering that bug. That's obviously existed since we started creating links to ks_mirror items.
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 7:24 PM, James Cammarata jimi@sngx.net wrote:
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Jeff Schroeder jeffschroeder@computer.org wrote:
Fedora's livecd-tools has this nifty "livecd-to-pxeboot" script for turning a bootable iso into a pxebootable image by putting the iso inside of the initrd. After playing with this for a bit and creating a small pxebootable distribution (using cobbler to manage it naturally), I ran into this bug. Since this is a stateless pxebootable distribution, there isn't a kickstart tree.
When replicating from 1 cobbler instance to another, it was blowing up. The traceback was relatively simple and the bug existed in master as well as 2.0.11, so I wrote patches for both.
Merged. This doesn't apply to release20 though, as the function that you patched was added in 2.2. If you want to fix that for release20 go for it, it would count as a maintenance patch though I'm not sure how many people would be hitting your use case and triggering that bug. That's obviously existed since we started creating links to ks_mirror items.
There is no release20 branch on github, do you mind pushing it up there? I'll go ahead and shoot a patch to fix the same bug for release20 then.
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