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

[Paul Robert Marino]

one thing i did find out is you can also manually upload a kickstart into
cobbler and whats interesting is that the server provisioning page can see
and seems to be able to use it.

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Cypher <the.cypher at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Paul,
> yes, having user/passwords in environment variable is better than having
> them as CLI options. I just didnt care because our spacewalk can only be
> accessed by root users anyways. But any Pull-Request is welcome.
>
> I havent done much kickstarting Ubuntu besides what I wrote in my blog and
> that was more experimenting/prototyping. However I'am interested in getting
> all features of Spacewalk to work with/for Ubuntu without the need of
> patching around.
> So I will be watching out for your RFEs and see how I could be of help. I
> have opened some myself already..
>
> Best, Phil
>
> On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 12:44 AM, 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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>>
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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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