[cobbler] [cobbler-devel] Call for help: testing RPM packages

André Gemünd andre.gemuend at scai.fraunhofer.de
Mon Feb 24 06:43:57 UTC 2014


Hi Jörgen,

great, I was hoping to see an OBS effort when the last question about RPMs arrived at the list. I hope I'll be able to test the rhel6 packages and come back to the list.

Greetings
André

----- Ursprüngliche Mail -----
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
> Yes, this would not have been possible without your many patches to
> the Cobbler build system, so thanks again! :)
> 
> My hopes for this packaging effort is to get more direct involvement
> from downstream users & developers to give the development of
> Cobbler another boost.
> 
> 
> 
> If you are willing to contribute a README for SUSE that would be
> great!
> 
> 
> Regarding the a2enmod/a2enflag stuff, we currently do those things in
> the %post section.
> 
> Is it against openSUSE's packaging policy to do this?
> 
> I think it would be best to align our packages as close as possible
> with the downstream packaging policies.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 1:07 AM, Michael Jansen <
> kde at michael-jansen.biz > wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Sunday 23 February 2014 17:13:11 Jörgen Maas wrote:
> > Hey all,
> > 
> > Just finished some work on packaging Cobbler for multiple distro's
> > and
> > versions.
> > This work is targeted on 2.5.0 (master) which will be the 2.6.0
> > release
> > rather soonish.
> > 
> > There are currently packages for:
> > - CenOS 6
> > - RHEL 6
> > - Fedora 18, 19, 20
> > - openSUSE 12.3, 13.1, Factory
> 
> I just tried to install the opensuse 13.1 rpm into a a freshly setup
> opensuse
> 13.1 minimal server installation. I had much less problems than i
> expected.
> Most parts seem to work. Its now up and running, just finished
> importing the
> opensuse 13.1 dvd. tomorrow i will check to setup and install some
> vms with
> koan to see if it works. I am not a power user though.
> 
> But judging from my problems back in October the problems were
> minimal this
> time. So my patches improved stuff and i have seen someone else
> contributed
> some fixes for opensuse too.
> 
> I will contribute a README.SUSE that details the necessary steps to
> activate
> cobbler after installing it. Just for reference (and others trying
> this) the
> steps i had to do:
> 
> # Starting point is opensuse 13.1 minimal server configuration
> uninstall patterns-openSUSE-minimal_base-conflicts
> 
> # install cobbler and cobbler-web from repo
> zypper ar
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/libertas-ict:/cobbler-master/openSUSE_13.1/
> cobbler-master
> zypper install cobbler cobbler-web
> 
> # Enable mod_version (Usage has to be wrapped in ifmodule mod_version
> btw)
> a2enmod mod_version
> a2enmod mod_socache_shmcb
> 
> # Enable and setup a development ssl localhost
> a2enmod ssl # Not sure if this is needed.
> a2enflag SSL
> 
> # configure ssl host (edit and adapt , hostname for example)
> cp /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/vhost-ssl.template
> /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/vhost-
> ssl.conf
> 
> # WARNING: this creates the minimal certificate neeeded with the
> minimal
> amount of configuration possible (none)
> gensslcert
> 
> # WARNING: firewall was up. either configure it or put it down
> SuSEfirewall2 stup
> 
> # Configure cobble
> /etc/cobbler/settings -> servername
> 
> systemctl start apache2
> systemctl start cobblerd
> 
> That stuff should go into a README.SUSE because its not allowed to do
> anything
> of that in the post installation step. User has to do it manually.
> 
> Mike
> 
> --
> Michael Jansen
> http://michael-jansen.biz
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Grtz,
> Jörgen Maas
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