On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Michael DeHaanmdehaan@redhat.com wrote:
I thought that would get your attention.
My posts to cobbler-devel about asking folks to work on Debian to post what they are doing, status, and so forth have not been answered lately, so what we have upstream (as a result of various patches from folks, much appreciated -- I know everyone has limited resources themselves) are in an inconsistent state. I feel bad leading users down a path where they are experimenting with code we know isn't going to do everything they want.
I won't mislead anyone, this is a large effort
- Porting all snippets
- Making repo/profile associations work
- Making import more streamlined, or otherwise unsupport it altogether
and provide better instructions
- koan --replace-self needs to work on Debian hosts
- koan --virt needs to work
- koan and cobbler need debian packaging updates for 2.0
If you have interest in seeing Debian working, you need to post up with what you are working on and organize yourselves, or the feature will be culled after 2.0, meanwhile I *will* be updating the Wiki docs to indicate these features are in development and are experimental, not something we suggest people use at this time.
I need to know who's working on what, and when they expect it can be completed, so we can make sure it's all going to be taken care of.
SuSE support is in similar peril, with no import code, no snippets, etc.
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Michael,
While I don't use Debian myself, I am updating the firmware on my HP servers using the trick posted in the wiki which does use the Debian features already in Cobbler.
Should it comes down to removing Debian support, is there any way to keep support for booting HP Smart Start and HP Firmware Update cds?
Dominic