[Spacewalk-list] Did any one notice Ubuntu and debian added kickstart support to their installer some time last year

[Paul Robert Marino]

by the way if any one is curious
https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/installation-guide/amd64/ch04s06.html has
information on the current kickstart compatibility for Ubuntu Trusty it
looks pretty close to compatible with RHEL 6 and a lot of whats missing can
probably be handled with snippets.
https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/installation-guide/amd64/ch04s06.html

On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 6:44 PM, Paul Robert Marino <prmarino1 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> hey Phil
>
> I'm testing some of your scripts so far so good. I'm thinking I may if i
> have time write some patches to some and submit them via a pull request. I
> gennerally dont like the idea of putting user names and passwords as
> command line options because they show up in ps and top so in my scripts i
> alway give users the option to use environment variables for them instead.
> That said the ones Ive tested so far are working as well or better than I
> expected.
> good job! Thanks for publicly publishing them with your blog.
>
> I still haven't gotten around to testing adding kickstart distros but I
> will probably get to it in the next coupe of days. when I'm done I intend
> to submit a list of RFE's so we can get it to work through the web
> interface. the first one is already published here
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1227499 and there will be
> more to come. Ive already determined that the list of distros seems to be
> hard coded in the page and should be moved to the database in fact there
> are already tables in the database which contain  most of the information
> needed. infact the API uses the database table rhnksinstalltype whats
> missing from the database is the breed and list of path information. there
> also seems to be a way to add an externally managed kickstart tree that im
> looking into next.
>
>
> The more i think about it though the simplest long term solution would be
> for spacewalk to get this information from
> http://www.cobblerd.org/signatures/latest.json like cobbler does. could
> also allow spacewalk in the future to automatically create a distro tree
> from an ISO image.
>
> Does any one else have any ideas on this before I write an RFE?
>
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> On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 8:17 PM, <prmarino1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> That's awesome but I think you may be able to ‎avoid the changing the
>> url= to ks= issue by using Centos6 instead of 7 as the distro. That said it
>> shouldn't be too hard to update the interface to accept debian and or
>> ubuntu as a valid distro type since cobbler already supports it.
>>
>> Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
>>   *From: *the.cypher at gmail.com
>> *Sent: *Tuesday, May 5, 2015 19:55
>> *To: *spacewalk-list at redhat.com
>> *Reply To: *spacewalk-list at redhat.com
>> *Subject: *Re: [Spacewalk-list] Did any one notice Ubuntu and debian
>> added kickstart support to their installer some time last year
>>
>>  I wrote a blog post about getting spacewalk to work with kickstarting
>> Ubuntu/Debian.
>>
>> http://www.devops-blog.net/spacewalk/kickstarting-and-provisioning-ubuntu-systems-with-spacewalk
>>
>> Best, Phil
>>
>> Am Dienstag, 5. Mai 2015 um 22:10 schrieb prmarino1 at gmail.com:
>>
>> It looks like koan is now even included too
>>
>> Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
>>   *From: *prmarino1 at gmail.com
>> *Sent: *Tuesday, May 5, 2015 16:07
>> *To: *Spacewalk Users List; spacewalk-devel
>> *Subject: *Did any one notice Ubuntu and debian added kickstart support
>> to their installer some time last year
>>
>>
>> Hello every one it's been a while. I suddenly found my self working with
>> Ubuntu and was looking through the documentation a‎nd it looks like they
>> both support kickstart files now.
>>
>> I also noticed that cobbler has documentation about debian and ubuntu too
>>
>> Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
>>
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