Dan G wrote: > OK, hotmail sucks! Please see below. hopefully this time with proper line > breaks. > ________________________________ > >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Snippet with generalized functions >> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:26:37 -0500 >> >> Attached is a snippet that makes use of cheetah methods. These are similar >> to some of the functionality that the Solaris SST offers. They basically >> encapsulate many (usually obscure) sed commands into handy functions. >> > > $set_config_value('/etc/login.defs', 'LOGIN_RETRIES', 3) > > is more readable than: > > perl -npe 's/^([ \t]*$LOGIN_RETRIES[ \t]+)[\x21-\x7E]*([ > \t]*(#.*)?)$/\${1}3\${2}/' -i '/etc/login.defs' > > and the perl (sed) command doesn't take into account the possibility that > LOGIN_RETRIES may not already be present in the file. The use of a function > makes kickstart templates more readable and helps avoid errors. > > Because of the utility of these functions, I would suggest they be > distributed with cobbler, possibly as 'built-in' methods. > > Development note: although I have tested that these functions do not cause > any Cheetah errors, I have not tested the resulting kickstarts in an actual > provision. They may still cause errors on the client side :( . > > ~ > Dan > > >> ________________________________ >> With Windows Live for mobile, your contacts travel with you. Connect on the >> go. >> > > _________________________________________________________________ > With Windows Live for mobile, your contacts travel with you. > http://www.windowslive.com/mobile/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_mobile_072008 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler >
Dan, Neat. Do you have a patch to cobbler to make this automatically available to all cobbler templates? Something like this might be interesting. Basically I think it's just an edit to templar.py to insert the include at the top of all the templates, and we could ship it in /etc/cobbler/cheetah.includes or something? I'm also interested in your generalization of Snippet inclusion with the "Advanced Snippet" functionality down to Cheetah functions, as that function is something we could also include in that file. --Michael _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
