Sure, here it is.
Looks good. Niche, but useful feature. Thanks for posting this.
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Jeff Schroeder
<jeffschroed(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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>>>
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