[et-mgmt-tools] cobbler sync crashes

[Matt Hyclak]

On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 11:10:35AM -0400, Michael DeHaan enlightened us:
> Matt Hyclak wrote:
> >On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 10:33:51AM -0400, Michael DeHaan enlightened us:
> >  
> >>drew einhorn wrote:
> >>    
> >>>I installed 0.6.0 and now cobbler sync dies with:
> >>>
> >>> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/action_sync.py", line 
> >>>466, in load_snippet_cache
> >>>   snip_file = open(snip)
> >>>IOError: [Errno 21] Is a directory
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>At first guess, it looks like you have a subdirectory in your 
> >>/var/lib/cobbler/snippets directory where I wasn't expecting any.
> >>
> >>The short term solution is to not put subdirectories there (cobbler 
> >>won't read them).    I'll fix 0.6.1 to ignore potential subdirectories.
> >>
> >>    
> >
> >Might be worth emulating some other things that have directories that are
> >read, but only read files with a particular ending - e.g.
> >partition_select.snip and ignore all other files/directories. That way it's
> >easy to disable a particular snippet by renaming it to something else.
> >
> >Matt
> >
> >  
> If a kickstart references "SNIPPET::bar" all you need to do currently to 
> disable it is to rename
> "bar" to something not named "bar".
>

True. Just hope you don't have another snippet named "not bar". :-)

> Searching subdirectories (and possibly even namespacing them) is 
> reasonable though.
>

Oooh, getting advanced on us. That might be interesting...

Matt

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Matt Hyclak
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