[et-mgmt-tools] changing webdir and ks config file locations in 0.6.0

[Tom Georgoulias]

Michael DeHaan wrote:

> There are some places though (koan, templates, etc) that assume some 
> relative http structure exists -- so I'd caution against moving the web 
> dir.  A better question would be, why do you want to move the webdir?
> 
> If it is to conserve space, you can use "--available-as" on the cobbler 
> import to specify that the URLs you import are available externally and 
> do not need to be mirrored.  

> Another option would be to make /var/www/cobbler (or even /var/www) a 
> symlink to a directory on another partition/volume 

It was disk space related--I have access to much more disk space if I 
use a partition other than /var, so creating the /var/www/cobbler 
symlink is a good option for me.

> Syntax for changing what template a profile uses:
> 
> cobbler profile edit --name=foo 
> --kickstart=/opt/special/mykickstarts/x.ks   # etc

Excellent.  I wanted to continue to make use of our existing kickstart 
config file generator script and provide cobbler with access those 
ks.cfg files, so that takes care of that.  I guess I mistakenly thought 
that cobbler was going to look for them in /etc/cobbler instead of 
whereever I specified them.

> Hopefully that makes sense, if not, maybe you can elaborate a bit on why 
> you wanted to move things around?

It makes perfect sense.  I've gone back to the standard RPM and 
implemented your suggestions.

Tom
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Tom Georgoulias
Sr. Systems Engineer
McClatchy Interactive
tomg at mcclatchyinteractive.com