In interest of full disclosure, I had to fix a few things for Red Hat Satellite Server / Spacewalk that warranted some new releases of Cobbler and Koan. The changes in this release aren't very profound for people who are just using Cobbler, but I didn't want some folks to wonder why this release wasn't getting wider visibility , so here it is:
- - 1.6.6 - (BUGF) fix typo in /usr/bin/cobbler-register - (NOTE: koan changelog in subdirectory is no longer maintained) - (BUGF) fix error message when wrong virt ram value is applied - (FEAT) koan now partially works in source code form on EL 2 - (BUGF) Satellite also has a python module named "server" so we have to remove ours for Python imports. This code was not used anyway. - (BUGF) Fedora 11 imports now work
One of these was a workaround for what we think is a mod_python import bug because of a reused module name. Another is code-only support for an OS that is not widely deployed.
Of this changelog, here are the only ones that will affect end users:
koan: fix typo in /usr/bin/cobbler-register cobbler: fix error message when wrong virt ram value is applied cobbler: Fedora 11 --os-version is now legal for imports
If either of those two items are interesting for you, you can pick up RPMs from
http://mdehaan.fedorapeople.org/files/cobbler/testing/
However we are probably *not* going to release this to Fedora/EPEL as it's so small, probably I'm going to wait until we have more items to do a 1.6.7 (if we accumulate enough new fixes to warrant this), or just wait until 2.0 ... it depends on what comes up.
Though if you've been wanting to use cobbler-register and haven't built a new RPM, that may get you started... although cobbler-register works a lot better in 2.0 so you may just want to wait. It also fixes that pesky message when you enter in the wrong virtual RAM.
Again, I consider both of these fixes not worth upgrading, but these packages do solve some Satellite problems/features that are rather important to it.
Fedora 11 *is* important, but then again, I didn't want to push a new release so close to the previous one. Also, I think the future focus should be on 2.0 rather than indefinitely continuing 1.6.X
Apologies if that is somewhat confusing :)
--Michael
On 06/10/2009 03:35 PM, Michael DeHaan wrote:
However we are probably *not* going to release this to Fedora/EPEL as it's so small, probably I'm going to wait until we have more items to do a 1.6.7 (if we accumulate enough new fixes to warrant this), or just wait until 2.0 ... it depends on what comes up.
Imho the F11 import fix warrants a release, now that F11 is released. Would you (re)consider pushing an update? :)
-Jasper
Jasper Capel wrote:
On 06/10/2009 03:35 PM, Michael DeHaan wrote:
However we are probably *not* going to release this to Fedora/EPEL as it's so small, probably I'm going to wait until we have more items to do a 1.6.7 (if we accumulate enough new fixes to warrant this), or just wait until 2.0 ... it depends on what comes up.
Imho the F11 import fix warrants a release, now that F11 is released. Would you (re)consider pushing an update? :)
-Jasper _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
Possibly. Very busy next week (HP Tech Forum) and then I'll be also MIA a few days on the following week.
If you can test koan (--replace-self && --virt) to make sure the Python bits work, and also test Fedora 11 imports from DVD, we might be able to get a release out tomorrow afternoon. I'd like some more reports on that first as I don't want to release things and then disappear for a week.
The Python 1.5 support changes in 1.6.6 koan were rather scary so I'm not /positive/ they are 100% safe, I was hoping to have that checked up on by Spacewalk Q/A and then releasing later.
--Michael
On 06/11/2009 08:38 PM, Michael DeHaan wrote:
Jasper Capel wrote:
On 06/10/2009 03:35 PM, Michael DeHaan wrote:
However we are probably *not* going to release this to Fedora/EPEL as it's so small, probably I'm going to wait until we have more items to do a 1.6.7 (if we accumulate enough new fixes to warrant this), or just wait until 2.0 ... it depends on what comes up.
Imho the F11 import fix warrants a release, now that F11 is released. Would you (re)consider pushing an update? :)
-Jasper _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
Possibly. Very busy next week (HP Tech Forum) and then I'll be also MIA a few days on the following week.
If you can test koan (--replace-self && --virt) to make sure the Python bits work, and also test Fedora 11 imports from DVD, we might be able to get a release out tomorrow afternoon. I'd like some more reports on that first as I don't want to release things and then disappear for a week.
The Python 1.5 support changes in 1.6.6 koan were rather scary so I'm not /positive/ they are 100% safe, I was hoping to have that checked up on by Spacewalk Q/A and then releasing later.
OK, I'll test the following today and post the results to the ML: * Fedora 11 x86_64 DVD import * Virt deployment of F11 (KVM) * Inside that virtual a replace-self
-Jasper
Jasper Capel wrote:
On 06/11/2009 08:38 PM, Michael DeHaan wrote:
Jasper Capel wrote:
On 06/10/2009 03:35 PM, Michael DeHaan wrote:
However we are probably *not* going to release this to Fedora/EPEL as it's so small, probably I'm going to wait until we have more items to do a 1.6.7 (if we accumulate enough new fixes to warrant this), or just wait until 2.0 ... it depends on what comes up.
Imho the F11 import fix warrants a release, now that F11 is released. Would you (re)consider pushing an update? :)
-Jasper _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
Possibly. Very busy next week (HP Tech Forum) and then I'll be also MIA a few days on the following week.
If you can test koan (--replace-self && --virt) to make sure the Python bits work, and also test Fedora 11 imports from DVD, we might be able to get a release out tomorrow afternoon. I'd like some more reports on that first as I don't want to release things and then disappear for a week.
The Python 1.5 support changes in 1.6.6 koan were rather scary so I'm not /positive/ they are 100% safe, I was hoping to have that checked up on by Spacewalk Q/A and then releasing later.
OK, I'll test the following today and post the results to the ML:
- Fedora 11 x86_64 DVD import
- Virt deployment of F11 (KVM)
- Inside that virtual a replace-self
-Jasper _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
Much appreciated, thanks.
The actual build submission is easy, it's the testing that is the time-sucker :)
Also hit --list=profiles/--list=systems, --update-files, and so forth if you can.
Longer term, it would be nice if we had more automated tests for koan, not just Cobbler... though this may take some doing.
--Michael
On 06/11/2009 08:47 PM, Michael DeHaan wrote:
OK, I'll test the following today and post the results to the ML:
- Fedora 11 x86_64 DVD import
- Virt deployment of F11 (KVM)
- Inside that virtual a replace-self
-Jasper _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
Much appreciated, thanks.
The actual build submission is easy, it's the testing that is the time-sucker :)
Also hit --list=profiles/--list=systems, --update-files, and so forth if you can.
Longer term, it would be nice if we had more automated tests for koan, not just Cobbler... though this may take some doing.
--Michael
Done!
[root@jcapel ~]# ./cobbler-1.6.6-test.sh * F11 x86_64 DVD import [PASSED] * koan --virt (KVM) for F11 [PASSED] * koan --list=systems [PASSED] * koan --list=profiles [PASSED] * koan --list=distros [PASSED] * koan --update-files [PASSED] * koan --replace-self [PASSED] Success rate: 7/7 (100%)
-Jasper
Jasper Capel wrote:
On 06/11/2009 08:47 PM, Michael DeHaan wrote:
OK, I'll test the following today and post the results to the ML:
- Fedora 11 x86_64 DVD import
- Virt deployment of F11 (KVM)
- Inside that virtual a replace-self
-Jasper _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
Much appreciated, thanks.
The actual build submission is easy, it's the testing that is the time-sucker :)
Also hit --list=profiles/--list=systems, --update-files, and so forth if you can.
Longer term, it would be nice if we had more automated tests for koan, not just Cobbler... though this may take some doing.
--Michael
Done!
[root@jcapel ~]# ./cobbler-1.6.6-test.sh
- F11 x86_64 DVD import [PASSED]
- koan --virt (KVM) for F11 [PASSED]
- koan --list=systems [PASSED]
- koan --list=profiles [PASSED]
- koan --list=distros [PASSED]
- koan --update-files [PASSED]
- koan --replace-self [PASSED]
Success rate: 7/7 (100%)
-Jasper _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
Thanks very much for doing this.
I will see about submitting things to the build system tomorrow so we can reduce our number of F11-questions we're likely to get on the lists :)
--Michael
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