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

Michael DeHaan mdehaan at redhat.com
Wed Oct 25 18:19:33 UTC 2006


Foreman, Tim wrote:
> Well, I do have another question (now that you ask.)
>
> The cobbler sync command did build the ks.cfg file in the
> kickstarts_sys/MAC_ADDRESS/ dir, but the pxelinux.cfg/MAC_ADDRESS
> file has the following ks option: 
> ks=http://kickstart/cobbler/kickstarts/base_test/ks.cfg
>
> I would have expected to see a ks url that looked more like:
> ks=http://kickstart/cobbler/kickstarts_sys/MAC_ADDRESS/ks.cfg
>
> Am I still missing something?
>
> Thanks again for all your help.
>
> --Tim

Yup, another bug :)  

Here's the fix:

diff -r 1f764e5dd1cc cobbler/action_sync.py
--- a/cobbler/action_sync.py    Wed Oct 25 12:03:55 2006 -0400
+++ b/cobbler/action_sync.py    Wed Oct 25 14:15:58 2006 -0400
@@ -468,8 +468,8 @@ class BootSync:
         # kickstart path (if kickstart is used)
         if kickstart_path is not None and kickstart_path != "":
             # if kickstart path is on disk, we've already copied it into
-            # the HTTP mirror, so make it something anaconda can get at
-            if kickstart_path.startswith("/"):
+            # the HTTP mirror, so make it something anaconda can get at.
+            if kickstart_path.startswith("/") or 
kickstart_path.find("/cobbler/kickstarts/") != -1:
                 pxe_fn = self.get_pxe_filename(system.name)
                 kickstart_path = 
"http://%s/cobbler/kickstarts_sys/%s/ks.cfg" % (self.settings.server, 
pxe_fn)
             append_line = "%s ks=%s" % (append_line, kickstart_path)

Already checked in and pushed as well.

--Michael





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