[et-mgmt-tools] distro not updating on an IP Address change

[Michael DeHaan]

Michael DeHaan wrote:
> Patrick Nixon wrote:
>>
>>  
>
> You could write a script that read the value of 
> /var/lib/cobbler/settings ($server parameter)
> and then  updated the contents of /var/lib/cobbler/distros appropriately.
>
> It is a perfectly reasonable request to be able to have a value like 
> "$server" inside the "tree" parameter and have
> it parse out though.
> I'll see about adding that for 0.6.1  -- we could only use this 
> behavior for distros
> we imported with "cobbler import" and didn't use the "--available-as" 
> parameter, but that would
> cover a very large amount of distros.
>
> If implemented as mentioned above, all you would have to do is change 
> /var/lib/cobbler/settings and re-sync.

In case it wasn't obvious, I'm shooting for 0.6.1 to release Friday, so 
it won't be that long if you want to wait.
Short term, just hack /var/lib/cobbler/distros, re-run cobbler sync, and 
things will work.