Nevermind.

Dustin Black wrote:
> Michael DeHaan wrote:
>> Dustin Black wrote:
>>> Michael DeHaan wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dustin Black wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I've imported a slew of operating system shares into cobbler as so:
>>>>>
>>>>> # cobbler import --mirror=/install_images/mnt --name=CBLR
>>>>> --available-as=http://10.0.0.1/install_images/mnt
>>>>>
>>>>> I've then created some custom profiles using the imported distros and
>>>>> pointing to a specific new kickstart file.
>>>>>
>>>>> Later, I've added some other OS shares to /install_images/mnt, and
>>>>> performed the cobbler import command again to add the new distros to
>>>>> cobbler.  When I run this second import, the kickstarts for the custom
>>>>> profiles are reset back to the sample.ks or sample_end.ks files.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is this expected behavior, and if so, what should I be doing
>>>>> differently?
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Dustin L. Black, RHCE
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>>>> The idea of running cobbler import against the same distro/profile name
>>>> is undefined (at least, in my eyes), so we have the opportunity to
>>>> define it.
>>>>
>>>> We could either:
>>>>
>>>> (A) fail the import... or
>>>> (B) just let it redo the rsync and leave the other variables intact
>>>>
>>>> It seems like you'd like B, which also seems better to me, so what we
>>>> want to do I believe is make sure that if an object of the same name
>>>> exists we edit that object, rather than making a new one and overwriting
>>>> it. This way, cobbler import becomes a handy way to redo the rsync.
>>>>
>>>> Does this sound right?
>>>>
>>>> That all being said, I'm still not sure of the use case of wanting to
>>>> redo the rsync, unless possibly the distro has been respun with
>>>> something like pungi/Revisor? Let me know.
>>>>
>>>> As you mentioned it, that seems like a bug to me.
>>>>
>>>> --Michael
>>>>
>>>>
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>>> Option B is definitely what I'm looking for.
>>>
>>> I'm running cobbler import against a directory containing many
>>> sub-directories where the distro install images are mounted, so it picks
>>> all of them up at once, adding each distro and its standard and xen
>>> profiles.
>>>
>> Definitely. That was one of the reasons I wrote import like that to
>> begin with (we have a very large NFS directory with all of our trees on it).
>>
>>> If I later make more distro install images available via this directory
>>> structure, I want to use cobbler import to add those new distros and
>>> profiles en masse, but I don't want to disturb the distros previously
>>> imported.
>>>
>>> In particular, I would say that the import mechanism shouldn't be
>>> touching the custom profiles, even if it were going to reset the default
>>> profiles that are created.
>>>
>> It probably shouldn't mess with either.
>>
>> Can you file a bug at https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler?
>>
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>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>> -Dustin
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> I'm afraid I don't see where on https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler to post
> a bug report.
> 
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