[et-mgmt-tools] Installing cobbler on a debian system

[Javier Palacios]

> Not really (it's been used to deploy Debian systems though, see "cobbler
> distro add --breed=debian"), but if you run into anything, we can
> probably work through them.

Most of our machines are debian/ubuntu, so that was the second step.
The manpage states "limited experimental support" for debian/suse but
for your comments I understand that it works right. The "distro add"
arguments resembles those for a syslinux/pxeboot. Is it posible also
to import debian packages, manage debian repos and so on?

> I believe "make install" from a source checkout is largely functional on
> Debian, though there are some places where the code relies on
> /sbin/service, createrepo,
> and some other tools.

Yes, `make install` did work with just a couple of easy requirements.
But locates some files (apache config for example) in places where
debian does not look for them. It also requires rhpl (easy but not
available as official debian package), and other things to come ....
Although I'll probably setup a fedora box, I'll keep trying to install
& run cobbler from a debian system. If you think it might be valuable,
I'll keep you/the list informed about the (expected) progress.

Javi



>
> (It would be much happier on a F8 machine.)
>
> --Michael
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