cobbler support for different distros

[Tim Coote]

Hullo
I’m not sure whether this is the right list for this query, or whether it’s more for one
of the Fedora lists.

Should my cobbler server be able to handle distros that are newer than the distro hosting
the cobbler server? Given that cobbler ought to be able to provision for different
distros, I’d have thought that there should be now issue. However, I find that my cobbler
server (f18) can deploy f17 distros ok, but for f20 distros, the puppet service does not
get enabled/started.  Is this expected behaviour? Where does it originate - if it’s in
some configuration, rather than code, can I set the configuration separately?

Or am I on a constant path of updating my cobbler server?

tim

[Alan Evangelista]

On 06/23/2014 11:40 AM, Tim Coote wrote:
>  Hullo
>  I’m not sure whether this is the right list for this query, or whether it’s more for one
> of the Fedora lists.
>
>  Should my cobbler server be able to handle distros that are newer than the distro hosting
> the cobbler server? Given that cobbler ought to be able to provision for different
> distros, I’d have thought that there should be now issue. However, I find that my cobbler
> server (f18) can deploy f17 distros ok, but for f20 distros, the puppet service does not
> get enabled/started.  Is this expected behaviour? Where does it originate - if it’s in
> some configuration, rather than code, can I set the configuration separately?
>
>  Or am I on a constant path of updating my cobbler server? 
Cobbler can install Fedora 20 x86 and ppc64 distributions, I use them. 
However, I do not use Puppet, so that could be broken.
There are few Cobbler developers currently, so I'd have no confidence 
that advanced features work correctly, specially
in newer Linux distributions.

Probably a new issue should be opened at Cobbler's issue tracker:
https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/issues


Regards,
Alan Evangelista

[Nishanth Aravamudan]

On 23.06.2014 [13:23:34 -0300], Alan Evangelista wrote:
>  On 06/23/2014 11:40 AM, Tim Coote wrote:
>  >Hullo
>  >I???m not sure whether this is the right list for this query, or whether it???s more
> for one of the Fedora lists.
>  >
>  >Should my cobbler server be able to handle distros that are newer
>  >than the distro hosting the cobbler server? Given that cobbler ought
>  >to be able to provision for different distros, I???d have thought
>  >that there should be now issue. However, I find that my cobbler
>  >server (f18) can deploy f17 distros ok, but for f20 distros, the
>  >puppet service does not get enabled/started.  Is this expected
>  >behaviour? Where does it originate - if it???s in some configuration,
>  >rather than code, can I set the configuration separately?
>  >
>  >Or am I on a constant path of updating my cobbler server?
>  
>  Cobbler can install Fedora 20 x86 and ppc64 distributions, I use
>  them. However, I do not use Puppet, so that could be broken.
>  There are few Cobbler developers currently, so I'd have no
>  confidence that advanced features work correctly, specially
>  in newer Linux distributions. 
Well, it all depends. If you are using the exact same kickstart for FC17
and FC20, I'd be suprised if it worked. Kickstart syntax (what's
supported and not, etc.) changes pretty often it seems like.

To be clear, though, you didn't really answer the OP's question. Tim:
yes, an older distribution can install a newer one. You will need to
debug a bit more or provide more details as to what's happen

>  Probably a new issue should be opened at Cobbler's issue
> tracker:
>  https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/issues 
Worth doing regardless.

-Nish