[et-mgmt-tools] Cobbler - Templating not working?

[Michael DeHaan]

Foreman, Tim wrote:
> Ah ha!
>
> I was looking in the kickstarts dir, not the kickstarts_sys dir!
>
> Thank you very much, it appears to be working fine now.
>
> --Tim
>   
Great.   Just to confirm -- cobbler & koan both are relatively sane in 
mercurial now, and I should be releasing this fix to Fedora later today.

Appreciate the report!   If you have any other problems/questions (or 
feature requests), let me know.  I'd be especially interested if there's 
something that's not especially clear in the manpages from your point of 
view (templating or otherwise).

--Michael.

>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Michael DeHaan [mailto:mdehaan at redhat.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 11:44 AM
>> To: Foreman, Tim
>> Cc: 'et-mgmt-tools at redhat.com'
>> Subject: Re: [et-mgmt-tools] Cobbler - Templating not working?
>>
>>
>> Foreman, Tim wrote:
>>     
>>> Hmm. I applied this patch and now it doesn't seem to
>>> be replacing the TEMPLATE::env line at all.
>>>
>>> --Tim
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> Hmm, works for me.
>>
>> Just to confirm, did you apply this to the python file living in 
>> /var/lib/python$version/site-packages or a source checkout?  
>>
>> If it's a source checkout, you'll need to do the make & rpm --Uvh 
>> cobbler*.noarch.rpm --force bit to make those changes get installed.  
>> Also you'll have to re-run "cobbler sync" once this is done to 
>> regenerate the kickstarts. 
>>
>> Furthermore, there are two locations where kickstarts get thrown in 
>> /var/www/cobbler -- this is probably what's causing the confusion.  
>> There's a kickstarts and a kickstarts_sys.   For profiles, you'll see 
>> the kickstart in "kickstarts", and since ksmeta is attached to the 
>> system, not the profile, it will look unchanged in "kickstarts".  It 
>> should be replaced correctly under "kickstarts_sys".    The PXE setup 
>> will set this all appropriately and will point to the right one.
>>
>> There is a possibility I still have something wrong though, 
>> but I think 
>> it looks right.   If you can check that and are still having 
>> problems, 
>> let me know, and we'll figure it out.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Michael
>>     
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Michael DeHaan [mailto:mdehaan at redhat.com]
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 11:06 AM
>>>> To: Foreman, Tim
>>>> Cc: 'et-mgmt-tools at redhat.com'
>>>> Subject: Re: [et-mgmt-tools] Cobbler - Templating not working?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Tim,
>>>>
>>>> Yes, you've found a bug.
>>>>
>>>> Here's the fix:
>>>>
>>>> diff -r 25f009106e21 cobbler/action_sync.py
>>>> --- a/cobbler/action_sync.py    Wed Oct 25 11:36:47 2006 -0400
>>>> +++ b/cobbler/action_sync.py    Wed Oct 25 12:02:44 2006 -0400
>>>> @@ -323,7 +323,8 @@ class BootSync:
>>>>          data = fd.read()
>>>>          fd.close()
>>>>          for x in metadata.keys():
>>>> -            data = data.replace("TEMPLATE::%s" % x, metadata[x])
>>>> +            if x != "":
>>>> +               data = data.replace("TEMPLATE::%s" % x, 
>>>>         
>> metadata[x])
>>     
>>>>          fd = open(out_path, "w+")
>>>>          fd.write(data)
>>>>          fd.close()
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I've gone ahead and pushed this upstream (to the public mercurial 
>>>> repository) along with some other things I've been working on 
>>>> (which may 
>>>> be a bit unstable).   If you like, you can try pulling from there 
>>>> (though today it's probably not the stablest thing in 
>>>> existance), or you 
>>>> can just apply the patch yourself.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Michael
>>>>
>>>> Foreman, Tim wrote:
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>> I have installed Cobbler and am trying to get the kickstart 
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>> templating
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>> to work with no success.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have added a line to my kickstart template that look like this:
>>>>>
>>>>> INSTALL_ENV=TEMPLATE::env
>>>>>
>>>>> Then I setup my distro like this:
>>>>>
>>>>> cobbler distro add --name=rhel4u4 \
>>>>> --kernel=/var/www/html/kickstart/rhel4u4/i386/isolinux/vmlinuz \
>>>>> --initrd=/var/www/html/kickstart/rhel4u4/i386/isolinux/initrd.img
>>>>>
>>>>> I created a profile like this:
>>>>>
>>>>> cobbler profile add --name=base_test --distro=rhel4u4 \
>>>>> --kickstart=/etc/cobbler/ks4_base.cfg
>>>>>
>>>>> And then I added a system like this:
>>>>>
>>>>> cobbler system add --name=00:15:60:A7:6E:56 --profile=base_test \
>>>>> --ksmeta="env=mtc"
>>>>>
>>>>> After the cobbler sync command, the kickstart file that is created
>>>>> has the line:
>>>>>
>>>>> INSTALL_ENV=env
>>>>>
>>>>> Am I doing something wrong, or is the templating not working for
>>>>> some reason?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for any help.
>>>>> --
>>>>> Timothy W. Foreman ~ Security Administrator ~ tforeman at ibsys.com
>>>>> (651) 365-4181     ~ Internet Broadcasting  ~ www.ibsys.com
>>>>> --
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