Shuichi Ihara wrote:
> Michael,
>
>   
>> This should be easy to fix.
>>
>> What is happening is that cobbler is trying to figure out what OS 
>> version it's running on, and it does this by looking for the 
>> redhat-release package.
>>     
>
> OK, I see.
>
>   
>> Basically we just need to add some code to that function to make it 
>> tolerate SLES and do the right thing.   Right now the code in question 
>> tolerates EL, Fedora, and Debian -- it just doesn't know about SuSE yet.
>>
>> If you know Python and would like to volunteer to fix up cobbler so it's 
>> installable on SLES, that's welcome, otherwise someone else with a SLES 
>> box does need to take a look at this as I don't have one around.
>>     
>
> Could you point me codes (or example) which is pointed to tolerate EL, Fedora 
> and Debian?
> I want to take a look at that codes.
>
>   
Sure, the traceback indicates where.

see os_version() in cobbler/utils.py

git source checkout instructions are listed at fedorahosted.org/cobbler

If you do make any patches, use the devel branch:   
https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/PatchProcess


>> We definitely do support SuSE as an install target and it would be nice 
>> to see it installable there as well.
>>     
>
> Yes, I know, but want to attempt to build on suse :)
>
> Thanks a lot for your helps.
>
> -Ihara
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