[et-mgmt-tools] Starting again with a new cobbler server

[Michael DeHaan]

drew einhorn wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Michael DeHaan <mdehaan at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> drew einhorn wrote:
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>>> The the breed ooption is new, since the last time I was paying attention.
>>> How well does it work with a Ubuntu Gutsy or Hardy distro?
>>>
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>>  Should do fine.   Basically all --breed=debian does is change the kernel
>> arguments so that what you feed to --kickstart is actually treated as a
>> preseed.   Ubuntu should work just the same.   I believe if you leave it
>> unmodified (no --breed parameter) the kernel arguments /might/ work with
>> Ubuntu's mutated version of kickstart also,  though you'll need to be
>> careful about what goes in the template.
>>
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>>     
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> Felt like the "cobbler import" should take the breed option, but it was rejected
> so I tried, an import without it:
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>      sudo cobbler import --mirror=/mnt/iso1 --name=ubuntu-7.10-desktop-i386
>   

Expected.  ATM cobbler import does not support non Red Hat based 
distros.   Support is not in plan -- at least not by me, anyway.  
"cobbler distro add", however, does work thanks to patches already 
submitted to add that support.

Should you be wanting to add other distro import capability, I welcome 
patches -- something like action_foreign_import.py is probably a good 
fit rather than trying to make the existing Red Hat-based import code 
work elsewhere -- namely because it's already pretty complicated to 
detect varying tree layouts and mirror sources and so forth.

--Michael