Well, I got a python exception. Will see if I can regenerate it.

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Michael DeHaan <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Pieter Thoma wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was wondering if it is possible to set the inherit option in a
> > profile or system?
> >
> > # cobbler profile edit --name=CentOS-5.2-i386
> > --kickstart="<<inherit>>" doesnt work.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Pieter
>
> That is intended to work on subprofiles and system records only, it
> doesn't make sense for setting that on a regular profile.
>
> This worked for me:
>
> [mdeh...@mdehaan cobbler]$ sudo cobbler profile edit --name=mine
> --kickstart=/var/lib/cobbler/kickstarts/sample.ks
> [mdeh...@mdehaan cobbler]$ sudo cobbler profile edit --name=mine2
> --kickstart="<<inherit>>"
> [mdeh...@mdehaan cobbler]$ sudo cobbler profile report --name=mine2 |
> grep kickstart
> kickstart            : <<inherit>>
>
> In general, I shouldn't have exposed "<<inherit>>" as a user visible
> item in the Web app or CLI, such a concept is too abstract to make folks
> need to understand it -- though setting a kickstart to "" means
> something else .. it means don't use a kickstart, so I needed to put
> something in there that wasn't likely to be used as regular text.
>
> Just as a general pointer, "doesn't work" isn't descriptive enough.  You
> need to post what things actually do when they don't work :)
>
> --Michael
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