On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Paul Company<[email protected]> wrote: >> We need to crawl the tree, and http:// is unsuitable for this. > > Do you really need to crawl the tree, or do you just need the locations of > kernel (vmlinuz) and initrd (initrd.img)? > > Why isn't the following reasonable:
Because in.tftpd doesn't support serving files from http. Even if that cobbler command worked, cobbler would still have to copy the file locally for tftp to work. > # cobbler distro add --name=foo --kernel=http://path/to/vmlinuz > --initrd=http://path/to/initrd.img > # cobbler profile add --name=foo-profile --distro=foo > --kickstart=http://path/to/ks.cfg etc. > > Limiting things to NFS severely limits your availability. > http is accessible almost everywhere on the Internet, but NFS is not. > > My guess is you're crawling the tree to find if there are other > distros in there. > For example, CentOS-5.3-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso, includes both > CentOS-5.3-x86_64 and CentOS-5.3-xen-x86_64 > > You would have to add them separately if you didn't crawl the tree. > But the tradeoff between adding distro's separately and making distros > more available seams to favor availability? No? > > Paul > > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Michael DeHaan<[email protected]> wrote: >> On 07/06/2009 04:44 PM, Paul Company wrote: >> >> Nothing needs to be local. >> Kernels and initrds must be on a mounted filesystem. >> >> >> So only NFS is supported for making kernel and initrd appear local. >> HTTP can't be used to copy them locally automatically. >> --path=http:// is illegal - should it be? >> >> >> We can't traverse directories over http nearly as easily, so no, it should >> not be. >> >> >> >> It doesn't really make sense to me that --available-as= allows http,nfs,ftp >> but --path= only allows local paths (well, an NFS mount isn't local >> but appears local). >> >> >> >> We need to crawl the tree, and http:// is unsuitable for this. >> >> Trees can be local or remote (if remote, ftp, nfs, or http access is >> required). >> >> >> What's your definition of Tree? >> >> >> An install tree is a set of packages plus other metadata needed by Anaconda >> in order to install OS. It is an installation source. >> >> The contents are what you feed to "url --url=http://foo"; in kickstart, that >> is the tree. >> >> When I inspect a distro, say CentOS-5.3-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso, >> I see kernel (vmlinuz) and initrd (initrd.img) in the >> images/pxeboot/initrd.img directory. >> Do you consider the CentOS directory the "Tree"? >> >> >> The thing above images is the root of the install tree, yes. >> >> >> Paul -- Jeff Schroeder Don't drink and derive, alcohol and analysis don't mix. http://www.digitalprognosis.com _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
