[Spacewalk-list] FW: API kickstart profile update problem

[Franky Van Liedekerke]

(using another mail address to avoid the company footers)

On 2012-02-16 10:03, Tomas Lestach wrote:

>> Using the perl API (for spacewalk 1.4, but I assume the same issue 
>> exists in
>> 1.6), I can remove/add channels to a kickstart profile.
>
> What APIs do you mean?
> kickstart.profile.setChildChannels or others?

yes, kickstart.profile.setChildChannels is the one

>> However: using the
>> webinterface, I see that, when I download the kickstart file, the 
>> old
>> channels are still being used in the profile (the "repo --name" 
>> lines).
>> Just pressing "Update kickstart" fixes it, but this seems very weird 
>> to me:
>> shouldn't API kickstart changes in fact *change* the kickstart?
>
> Yes, they should. Is there a BZ for the issue?

no, because I wanted to verify if 1.6 still has this behaviour.

>> Needing to
>> press "update kickstart" in the web interface afterwards goes 
>> against all
>> logic. Is there something I can do to force a regeneration of the 
>> kickstart
>> profile, or has this indeed been fixed in 1.6 (which would give me 
>> one more
>> reason to force the update)?

> Regards,
> --
> Tomas Lestach
> RHN Satellite Engineering, Red Hat

regards,

Franky