Sandor W. Sklar wrote:
I would probably solve the problem of sourcing the packages list from an
external file in a different way...
For starters, assume you have your packages list arranged as follows:
/var/www/html/packages_list/systems/* (file named after systems go heere)
/var/www/html/packages_list/profiles/* (file named after profiles go here)
/var/www/html/packages_list/default (default files go here)
What follows is a bash script for the kickstart .. the format is
slightly different as we have to escape the bash for Cheetah -- and we
also need to do a quick trick to pass Cheetah variables into the bash
section as bash variables... So that's what the first four lines up to
"#raw" do.
you can validate that this works for you by running "cobbler sync" and
then looking at http://server/cobbler/kickstart_sys/name/ks.cfg to make
sure it's templated out with URLs/values that look good to you, though
this should be pretty close.
Basically it makes three seperate wget requests and stops when it gets a
file that is not zero length. Once it has the file saved to
/tmp/packages we later include (using kickstart) the file /tmp/packages
into the middle of the package list at runtime. This also allows the
package list to be modified without having to run "cobbler sync" to
apply changes to it.
%pre
profile = $profile
name = $name
server = $server
#raw
wget http://$server/packages_list/systems/$name -O /tmp/packages
if [ ! -s /tmp/packages ]
then
wget http://$server/packages_list/profiles/$profile -O /tmp/packages
if [ ! -s /tmp/packages ]
then
wget http://$server/packages_list/default -O /tmp/packages
fi
fi
#endraw
In your %packages section:
%include /tmp/packages
Will that work? That's a pretty good idea for a way to source a packages
list, so I may include that snippet in a future release of Cobbler if it
meets requirements. We could carve out space in /var/www/cobbler to
store the packages lists and include info on the Wiki about how to use
it. (Note that right now, that's not advisable, as cobbler cleans out
content in /var/www/cobbler each time it runs).
--Michael
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