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----- "Petr Benas" <pbenas(a)redhat.com> wrote:
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> ----- "Vladimir Benes" <vbenes(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > we discussed yesterday the possibility of returning take button
into beaker. Maybe it can help something but as for now I use it like this.
> >
> > find myself any machine.. select the distro I want to provision and
then click schedule provision (in the certain system page). This creates
me a job and send me notification about it. So it works as well as take
and even better in a way of scheduling currently occupied system as you
don't have to check if it's already free.
> > The job is not cancelled when rebooting so you can make whatever
you want with the box.
> >
> > I don't see any reason for changing the code to get the Take button
back, any ideas what went wrong so the need to have Take button came out?
>
> There is one, probably not sufficient enough since it's not too
common case. Manual provisioning. If I want to install machine manually
through vnc, need to perform it when the job starts. With oldschool
provision I would reserve the machine and then reprovision it. This is
now impossible. I reserve the machine, enqueue job with vnc install and
return2beaker with hope no other jobs are in queue.
>
> I know I could use my own kickstart, but it seems to me it would cost
me much more time. Actually, I don't need Take button, but ability to
reprovision the machine.
Just an idea, what about "Schedule provision" for machines where you're
not current user and oldschool "Provision" if you're current user?
This would meet needs Jan and I were describing and the infinite time
reservation would remain deprecated, as was intention of Take button
removal. Would this be hard to implement? Reprovisioning the machine and
starting new reservesys with the time remaining...
>
> >
> > cheers,
> > Vladimir
> >
>
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> Petr Benas
> Kernel QA Brno
> RedHat Czech, s.r.o
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Petr Benas
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