James Cammarata wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:12:44 -0500, Michael DeHaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
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>> Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
>>     
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>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> It would mean a great deal for me if someone would be able to pick up
>>> the review of "ris-linux", currently pending at
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469052
>>>
>>> This would enable us to make a step forward in the process of
>>> integrating Cobbler and provisioning that-other-operating-system. I have
>>> it up and running of course, but having it properly packaged means other
>>> people get to play with it, too.
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> Jeroen van Meeuwen
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>> +1000 bonus points to anyone who wants to take this.
>>
>> Imagine deploying windows desktops/servers with cobbler managed DHCP,
>> DNS, and answer files, and never having to visit a Linux machine.
>>
>> Just think of the possibilities, folks :)
>>
>> --Michael
>>     
>
> I am looking at this right now, as I have an XP CD laying around not doing
> anything.  The main issue I see is that we would either have to have a
> dependency on the ris-linux package, or just distribute it with cobbler. 
>   

I don't think so. We can do things such as just use it if 
present/configurable, as we do with things like
ISC/BIND/dnsmasq support in Cobbler.

> Also, it would probably be best to integrate the daemon that it runs with
> cobblerd in order to reduce the number of processes that people need to
> start up (that would definitely require packing it).
>   

The restart-services trigger could choose to restart it if is present.
> Finally, would we be looking at adding a manage_samba option then, since
> this requires packages to be shared via a CIFS mount?  Some extra checks
> could be added to "cobbler check" to verify that's all installed.
>   

I would need to look at this further to tell. Haven't done so yet, but 
in general it's not managing
samba generically but only for it's own purposes.

I can see this having additional manual setup requirements and maybe a 
boolean in settings
to enable it, plus some extra Wiki docs. TBD.

> Beyond that, the generation of response files is mainly what I wrote the
> templated config stuff for, so it should be fairly simple to implement this
> as an import :)
>   

We might be able to treat them as an answer file directly (--kickstart) 
for the most part. If they have more than
one file to generate, then yes.
> Thoughts?
>
>
>   

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