Hi Cobbler users,
Is anyone using the functionality as described below?
Please let us know!
Thanks
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From: Leonid Flaks <flaks(a)bnl.gov>
Date: Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 2:46 AM
Subject: Re: [cobbler-devel] Templated scripts
To: cobbler-devel(a)lists.fedorahosted.org
On 09/15/2014 08:06 PM, Alan Evangelista wrote:
On 09/07/2014 06:22 PM, Alan Evangelista wrote:
> I'd like to understand better the purpose of the generic templated
> scripts available in the
> scripts directory in Cobbler repository. The script() method in
> cobbler/services.py seems
> to be the responsible for creating these and, according to documentation,
> the purpose
> is to generate scripts based on snippets useful for post or late action
> where it
> is difficult to embed the script in the kickstart/autoyast/preseed file.
> I see only two
> of those in upstream Cobbler: preseed_early_default and
> preseed_late_default.
> These scripts only include snippets and are only used in sample preseed
> available
> in kickstarts/ directory. I dont understand why these 2 scripts could not
> be embedded
> directly in the sample preseed.
>
> Is anyone using this feature?
>
> Regards,
> Alan Evangelista
>
>
>
Considering the lack of answers and apparent lack of interest in this
feature, do we
need to keep it in the future versions of Cobbler? Removing it would make
code simpler.
Regards,
Alan Evangelista
I am very much interested in this feature. The problem is that preseed file
that is used in debian/ubunty installer (d-i) is a lot less convenient then
kickstart. In particular, early- and late- installation scripts are not
very easy to configure. I had to cook a one line command with some sort of
black magic to make it work if I used snippets. I hope those scripts made
it easier and more readable. I never got a chance to give them a try, but
it is on my to-do list. I am not sure who contributed this feature to
cobbler, but the lack of documentation or use-case example make them less
appealing. I think, they work as some sort of wrappers, which are not
necessary for anaconda-based installations.
This mail list is not very active lately, unfortunately, but lack of the
answer does not mean lack of interst
Leon
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