[et-mgmt-tools] cobbler 1.0 profiles/repo inheritance check problem

[Michael DeHaan]

haerry+et at puzzle.ch wrote:
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> Hi
>
> beside switching our cobbler setup to a new server we upgraded to 1.0.
> However we then had a problem running cobbler check:
>
> # cobbler check
> The following potential problems were detected:
> #0: since iptables may be running, ensure 69, 80, 25150, and 25151 are
> unblocked
> #1: One or more repos referenced by profile objects is no longer defined
> in cobbler: <, <, i, n, h, e, r, i, t, >, >, <, <, i, n, h, e, r, i, t,
>   
>> , >, <, <, i, n, h, e, r, i, t, >, >, <, <, i, n, h, e, r, i, t, >, >,
>>     
> <, <, i, n, h, e, r, i, t, >, >, <, <, i, n, h, e, r, i, t, >, >, <, <,
> i, n, h, e, r, i, t, >, >, <, <, i, n, h, e, r, i, t, >, >, <, <, i, n,
> h, e, r, i, t, >, >, <, <, i, n, h, e, r, i, t, >, >, <, <, i, n, h, e,
> r, i, t, >, >, <, <, i, n, h, e, r, i, t, >, >, <, <, i, n, h, e, r, i,
> t, >, >, <, <, i, n, h, e, r, i, t, >, >, <, <, i, n, h, e, r, i, t, >,
>   
>> , <, <, i, n, h, e, r, i, t, >, >, <, <, i, n, h, e, r, i, t, >, >, <,
>>     
> <, i, n, h, e, r, i, t, >, >, <, <, i, n, h, e, r, i, t, >, >, <, <, i,
> n, h, e, r, i, t, >, >
>
> So first I thought of having a problem due to our migration, however I
> then could say for sure that the setup is the same. Talking then on irc
> with iranzo, we figured out that it have to be a problem in the profiles
> at the repos: part. I had 27 profiles with 7 being the top and all the
> others inheriting from these 7. Makes 20 repos which inherits and have
> therefor repos: <<inherit>> in the yaml. Which is exactly the amount of
> <,<,i,n... in the error above.
> Wit dumpvars everything looked ok and they had the repos inherited from
> the parent. However when I now added the repos for each profile without
> inheriting from the parent it works fine and there's only the firewall
> warning left.
>
> So for me it looks like cobbler check have a problem with inheriting
> repos in profiles. Anybody can confirm this behaviour? Or what else
> might cause the problem?
>
> thanks and greets Marcel
>   

Thankfully it's just "cobbler check" so you can ignore that message for 
now.   It should not be causing problems elsewhere, but yes, that should 
not be happening :)

I'll teach it to ignore inherits and this can go into the next 1.0.X 
maintaince release.   Patch should be in shortly.

--Michael



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