On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 6:14 AM, Devan Goodwin <dgoodwin(a)rm-rf.ca> wrote:
These changes have been pushed to cobbler master. Please let me know
if you experience any troubles with kickstart files or snippet
replacement. In theory, unless you enable the functionality, nothing
should change for the average user.
Can you post the patches to the list before pushing them the next
time you do a major feature like this? Michael would always do this
and it seems like the right way to do it. For minor features or small
changes of course it isn't a big deal but it would be nice to look at
the diffs in an mua before looking at them with the git browser tig.
Just my 2 cents.
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Devan Goodwin
<dgoodwin(a)rm-rf.ca> wrote:
> Just wanted to post about some work I'm doing to support fetching
> kickstarts and snippets over HTTP (and likely FTP/NFS as well). This
> is to allow tighter integration for larger systems looking to
> incorporate Cobbler. I wanted to post a little about what I've found
> and plan to do in case it raises any alarms.
>
> It appears you can already specify kickstarts as direct URLs, the only
> caveat is that we don't do snippet replacement on them and just pass
> the URL through directly to the client. I'm planning to modify this to
> actually do the templating on the fly, and pass a cobbler hosted URL
> for the kickstart to the client.
>
> Snippets are expected to be stored on the local filesystem, as defined
> by the /etc/cobbler/settings snippetsdir setting, I'm planning to
> change this to support URLs as well. That might be a little sluggish
> giving the multiple locations we check snippets for to support the
> per-system and per-profile snippet functionality, but it should not
> impact regular standalone cobbler users.
>
> The kickstart behavior may need to be disabled by default in a config
> setting so as not to impact existing users. The snippets should be
> fine, just keep your snippetsdir pointing to the local filesystem and
> nothing should change.
>
> Let me know if you have any thoughts concerns or suggestions.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Devan
>
>
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>
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