<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/30/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael DeHaan</b> <<a href="mailto:mdehaan@redhat.com">mdehaan@redhat.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
drew einhorn wrote:<br>> When is 0.5.2 due to hit the repositories?<br><br>0.5.2 won't. 0.5.0 is a development/testing "branch". Given a<br>sufficient period of testing and questions on IRC, if there are no
<br>problems, I'll push it to the mirrors as 0.6.0 (stable).<br><br>Failing any additional feeback, I'll rely on what I've tested and will<br>push in a couple of weeks.</blockquote><div><br>If 0.6.0 is likely in a couple weeks, I have no need for an
0.5.2<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">><br>> I've cobbled together my own .rpm packages<br>> using the latest source from git
<br>><br>> I think they have some minor problems<br>> bad %files section<br>This may already be corrected upstream. Depends when your checkout was.<br>></blockquote><div><br>You don't realize what I did.
<br>I expanded the latest source rpms I could find, 0.5.1<br>think .spec file in the download directory was a bit newer<br>took the source code from git<br>mashed it all together and built an rpm<br><br>Think to get it right all I would need to fix the %files section
<br><br>There may be other more subtle problems.<br>I don't know!<br><br>I'll be glad when I have something I have a bit more faith in.<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> but I think they are close enough for now<br>> and I think they will automatically be updated when 0.5.2<br>> hits the repositories.<br>Yes...<br>><br>> But I'm not 100% sure I haven't made some mistakes that
<br>> are bigger than I realize, since I have not really built any<br>> rpms for years.<br>><br>> I'll be happy when my funky rpms are replaced.<br>Hopefully they aren't any more funky than the specfile already included
<br>with Cobbler in the source checkout.<br><br>("make", "cd rpm-build", "rpm -i cobbler-something.rpm")<br>><br>> On 7/30/07, *Michael DeHaan* <<a href="mailto:mdehaan@redhat.com">mdehaan@redhat.com
</a><br>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:mdehaan@redhat.com">mdehaan@redhat.com</a>>> wrote:<br>><br>> Adam Rosenwald wrote:<br>> > Nice!!! Will make use of this!<br>> ><br>> > Examples should fit nicely in the KickstartTemplating WiKi page. :)
<br>><br>> It's a public wiki ... so community generated examples are always<br>> welcome anytime. You'll need to create a Fedora Account System<br>> account<br>> to get<br>> started:
<a href="https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/">https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/</a><br>><br>> However, just to get folks started, I've written some things up:<br>> <a href="https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/cobbler/wiki/KickstartTemplating">
https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/cobbler/wiki/KickstartTemplating</a><br>><br>> Probably more than most want to know :)<br>><br>><br>> ><br>> > -A.<br>> ><br>> > Michael DeHaan wrote:
<br>> >> drew einhorn wrote:<br>> >>> My kickstarts would be simpler and more readable if I could put<br>> >>> stuff that's frequently used in many kickstarts in a separate file
<br>> >>> and use %include<br>> >>> Where do I put the files so kickstart can find them when the time<br>> >>> comes.<br>> >>><br>> >>> --<br>
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https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools</a>><br>> >><br>> >> I've just committed a neat feature to allow easy includes in<br>> >> kickstart templates without needing to do the host-on-http-server /
<br>> >> wget-in-pre / %include trick.<br>> >><br>> >> To do this, in a kickstart template, you can now say:<br>> >><br>> >> SNIPPET::name_of_snippet<br>> >>
<br>> >> and it will automatically include the contents of<br>> >> /var/lib/cobbler/snippets/name_of_snippet<br>> >><br>> >> The interestingness here is that the snippet definition can also
<br>> >> contain further Cobbler templating variables that are profile<br>> and/or<br>> >> system specific -- which is something<br>> >> you can't do in Anaconda without a lot of black magic.
<br>> >><br>> >> Currently Cobbler includes only one sample snippet as an<br>> example, and<br>> >> you will see SNIPPET::partition_select in the new default<br>> >> kickstarts. Folks can define as many more as they like by
<br>> adding<br>> >> files to /var/lib/cobbler/snippets/, giving each file a descriptive<br>> >> name.<br>> >><br>> >> --Michael<br>> >><br>> >> _______________________________________________
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