[cobbler] RFC: adding a cobbler debmirror.template?

Shake Chen shake.chen at gmail.com
Fri Nov 30 01:28:34 UTC 2012


Good idea.

I use the http://www.gtkdb.de/index_7_959.html

mirror ubuntu 12.04 and other deb mirror.



On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 3:27 AM, Zack Perry <zack.perry at sbcglobal.net>wrote:

> As of now, cobbler has the following etc templates <
> https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/tree/master/templates/etc>:
>
> dhcp.template  dnsmasq.template  named.template  rsync.template
>  secondary.template  tftpd.template  zone.template
>
> For those of you who need to deal with Debian/Ubuntu network install,
> what do you think about adding a debmirror.template to the collection?
>
>
> Rationales: the use of debmirror is no less complex than say dnsmasq,
> rsync, and definitely more so than tftpd.  These three have templates,
> so why debmirror can't?
>
> Motivation: recently Canoncial decided to stop providing a full
> alternate iso for its default release. There are alternate install
> isos for other variants, but IMHO the digging and reviewing a
> collection of disjointed documentation (often are out of date or
> somewhat inaccurate) is such a waste of time. One of cobbler's main
> design goal is to mask the complexities of serveral tools typically
> used for PXE network install. Given what Ubuntu has done, IMHO
> debmirror becomes an important tool and thus qualifies to have
> a template.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> -- Zack
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-- 
Shake Chen
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