[et-mgmt-tools] Cobbler usage survey / needs

[Michael DeHaan]

Demetri Mouratis wrote:
> On 11/28/06, Michael DeHaan <mdehaan at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Two fold email:
>>
>> Cobbler's reached a point where are there places I _could_ take it,
>> though I'm trying to figure out which are the most important.    If
>> there's any features that you would really like to have related to
>> provisioning/kickstart/etc, I'd like to hear about them.    There is a
>> rough list I've been keeping at:
>>
>> http://hg.et.redhat.com/hg/emd/applications/cobbler?f=d9209042c5d6;file=TODO 
>>
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> I'm not sure this is what you are looking for but here goes.  My big
> ticket item would be a web UI that would keep track of "diffs" between
> existing repo/repos and my "subscribed" systems.  You may be familiar
> with a proprietary solution from certain Linux distro.  Some subset of
> that solution would be fine for me.
>
> Thanks.

As in, say, RHN?  :)

This is outside the bounds of cobbler's scope.   Namely, cobbler's role 
stops after kickstarting -- it doesn't keep track of OS's once installed.
This isn't to say folks can't benefit from having repo-oriented tools 
that are useful to Fedora users and the like, however.