On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 10:49 -0400, Michael DeHaan wrote:
> James Laska wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 17:07 -0400, Michael DeHaan wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Currently there are three things enqueued for 1.6.5
>>>
>>> - Don't use simplejson on RHEL 4 and before since it can lead to unicode
>>> problems
>>> - Jasper Capel's fix for koan to not add virtual interfaces for vlan
>>> tagged interface names
>>> - Allow F-11 imports and also create distros that correctly pair PAE and
>>> non-PAE kernel/initrds (creating one distro/profile for each combo).
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>> If there is anything else that needs to be included, let me know.
>>>
>>>
>> Do you know if the updates you added to find newer bootloaders
>> (specifically yaboot) are included? If that's too invasive, would a
>> short term solution of updating the yaboot binary included in 1.6.x be
>> acceptable?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> James
>>
>>
>>
> I've implemented the "download boot loaders" code in the devel branch.
>
> I don't want to update the 1.7 boot loaders because it involves checking
> in /more/ binary file changes in git, which is what
> we are trying to eliminate. However seeing I think the number of folks
> wanting to netboot ppc would be really low, you could
> always update the yaboot file post install to supply a newer version.
>
That's what I'm doing now, I just need to always remember to reset the
symlink to the newer yaboot whenever I run 'cobbler sync'. If I ever
get around to creating some documentation
(
https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/ticket/432), I'll include this point.
Thanks,
James
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