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

[Michael DeHaan]

Patrick Nixon wrote:
> Thanks for the answer and the follow up.
>
> --Pat
>   

I can do better :)    The feature is checked into git now.

Basically new cobbler import commands will "just work".  For older ones, 
go into your /var/lib/cobbler/distros and replace the server
addresses with "@@server@@"

<developer-mode>
How this works, for templating enthusiasts, is that for every string 
variable accessible in what we normally feed to Cheetah, we replace 
@@variable@@ with
it's value /after/ we complete our first pass of Cheetah rendering.   
This second pass does not use Cheetah to avoid the problem
of having to escape anything differently -- it just uses a basic 
string.replace() loop.   The additional level of templating is very basic
and I would encourage people to pretend it doesn't exist rather than 
making anything depend on it.
</developer-mode>

Here's the diff:

http://git.fedoraproject.org/?p=hosted/cobbler;a=commitdiff;h=e29737d38da69887368fc0acd3666fd78e842a80

> On 8/28/07, Michael DeHaan <mdehaan at redhat.com> wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>
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