[Spacewalk-list] Cobbler, Kickstart and Spacewalk

[Jan Hutař]

On 2016-03-11 13:16 +1100, Lachlan Musicman wrote:
>   Hola,
>   Trying to unpick a hairy problem I'm doing a lot of reading.
>   Running Spacewalk 2.4.x on Centos 7.2, I note that according to yum, I
>   have cobbler 2.0.x installed.
>   [root at emts-res-utils1 pxe]# yum list installed | grep cobbler
>   cobbler-loaders.noarch              1.0.3-1.el7
>   @spacewalk
>   cobbler2.noarch                     2.0.11-52.el7
>   @spacewalk
>   cobbler20.noarch                    2.0.11-52.el7
>   @spacewalk

This is because there were some bugs in upstream Cobbler, so Spacewalk
developers decided to fork it. Do not know if there was some progress
since then.

>   According to the cobbler website 2.6.x is the latest, and 2.2 is EOL.
>   My main issue is the documentation - how accurate is the current
>   documentation wrt the older cobbler?

I would use Cobbler 2.0 documentation.

It might be good to open a bugzilla to include newer version of cobbler
if you need that.

Regards,
Jan



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Jan Hutar     Systems Management QA
jhutar at redhat.com     Red Hat, Inc.