Jeff Schroeder wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Michael DeHaan <[email protected]> wrote:
>   
>> Terry McIntyre wrote:
>>     
>>> A poster asked how to customize a hundred nearly-identical systems;
>>> this is a lot like my environment.
>>>
>>> We have a single kickstart template, and only the mountpoints differ
>>> on a per-system basis.
>>>
>>> The post section includes:
>>>
>>> SNIPPET::config_mounts
>>>
>>> Instead of a single snippets/config_mounts script, there is a
>>> directory at /var/lib/cobbler/snippets/per_system/config_mounts ;
>>> inside this directory is a script snippet for each system, with the same 
>>> name.
>>>
>>> More info on the cobbler wiki.
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>> Using subprofiles and per_profile snippets may also work for you if you
>> have a set of them that are quasi-indentical ...
>>
>> (i..e webservers and webservers-pittsburgh and webservers-winston-salem
>> and dbservers and dbservers-san-diego...)
>>     
>
> I'm failing to see how you couldn't replace 50 snippets (one per host)
> with 1 cheetah template and some builtin hostname logic like the
> timezone example I posted showed.
>
>   

Indeed.

Snippets are a very large hammer.

--ksmeta can work magic.

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