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

Jörgen Maas jorgen.maas at gmail.com
Mon Feb 24 08:04:49 UTC 2014


Hey Andre,

Would be great to see your feedback!

Happy testing :)


On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 7:43 AM, André Gemünd <
andre.gemuend at scai.fraunhofer.de> wrote:

> 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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> >
>
> --
> André Gemünd
> Fraunhofer-Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing
> andre.gemuend at scai.fraunhofer.de
> Tel: +49 2241 14-2193
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-- 
Grtz,
Jörgen Maas
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