On Tue, August 28, 2007 2:14 pm, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On 8/28/07, Michael DeHaan <mdehaan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Jason Hartley wrote: >> > On Mon, August 27, 2007 10:29 am, Michael DeHaan wrote: >> > >> >> Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> >> >> >>> I would first get the cobbler && koan from EPEL testing. They are >> >>> updated and fix a lot of bugs from the EPEL-stable version. >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >> Exactly what I was going to say :) >> >> >> >> 0.6.0 is out now, and I'll be releasing 0.6.1 (a few more >> refinements) >> >> later this week. >> >> 0.4.x is pretty old. >> >> >> >> --Michael >> >> >> >> >> > >> > Thanks, Michael. Through trail and error I discovered that >> Cobbler/Koan >> > did not like me using a DNS name for the system name to build a Xen >> VM. >> > When I used a MAC address for the system it worked just fine. I >> should >> > have yielded to the advice in the man pages and just used a MAC. >> > >> >> You don't have to do that in 0.6.x :) >> >> > Also, thanks for the heads up on 0.6.0. Along with the bug fixes it >> > looks to have some neat features including an increased number of >> > builtin variables, along with the kickstart snippets that I can use >> for >> > kickstart templates. When will 0.6.0 be moved over to the standard >> EPEL >> > repo? >> > >> >> Everyone just pull the RPM's out of EPEL testing. For what it's worth, >> I'm using EPEL for "stable" releases >> only, and "testing" builds of cobbler (like the 0.5.x series) will never >> be pushed there. >> >> From recent discussions on #epel (IRC), epel is probably going to push >> quarterly, which means I can't update >> periodically for bugfixes and improvements as I would like. So, as a >> result, what is in EPEL stable is currently very old and I have >> no way of updating it. >> > > Also to let people know... EPEL people are looking at how to handle > this better in the future. There are lots of different potential > customers to EPEL (people who want old stable stuff forever) and > people who want to be able to get newest stable updates. The original > idea was to try and solve both by locking down a release for a > 'quarter' so that 5.0.0 tree would be stable for people wanting old > stuff and 5.1.0 tree would be stable on the next release, etc.. > growing pains. > > >> If you don't want the rest of your system to get packages out of EPEL >> "testing" for whatever reason, you can just enable the repo, >> install cobbler, and disable the repo. As long as you are on the list >> you'll get the release announcements so that may be workable. >> > > > -- > Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator > How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed > in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" > Thanks, for all the great information and help. I will checking out version 6 tonight! Regards, Jason _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
