For those that were expecting it, I had some "fun" with one of my
computers Friday, so I'll see about building the 1.3.3 test release and
getting that out Monday.
Main things to test:
-- Installs in general -- is everything you're used to still functioning?
-- Upgrades -- kickstarts will be copied to /var/lib/cobbler/kickstarts
for LSB happiness, make sure things continue to run smoothly
-- Networking configuration -- look for
/var/lib/cobbler/kickstarts/*.rpmnew for the new templates and how they
are used. Note prior emails about --dns-name being a new per-interface
variable and --hostname (corresponding to the system hostname, not DNS)
now being global instead. There's also a --static attribute on each
interface for easier static interface setup.
-- CobblerWeb -- new interface for editing the network information on
the systems page.
-- Power Management -- it's new, testing welcome, and let me know if any
of the snippets in /etc/cobbler/power need correcting
-- Puppet integration -- it's on the Wiki, if you use this, testing
welcome, I haven't heard much yet
-- Built In Configuration Management feature -- also see the Wiki, this
is pretty new and optional, but could use more testing and comments.
For reasons of needing to get a stable release out and not having much
time for testing, I probably do /not/ have all of the debian patches
applied.
We will look at merging all of this in once we have 1.6 ready and folks
can help test that. From IRC, it seems like the Wiki instructions do
not entirely
work as described, so we'll call this support "experimental" for 1.4.
I'll also be updating the Illustrated Changelog parts of the Wiki to
better describe the new things that were done recently.
There are still some open bugs on the Wiki, many of these should be
resolved before the 1.4 release, some minor fringe-case ones may be left
outstanding for a 1.4.1, but we'll not leave anything major in to bite
anyone.
(For those using git, no need to wait for me, just do a checkout for the
devel branch and run "make" to build the RPM... for everyone else...
source RPMs out soon)
Thanks!
--Michael