On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Michael DeHaan<[email protected]> wrote: > I thought that would get your attention. > > My posts to cobbler-devel about asking folks to work on Debian to post > what they are doing, status, and so forth have not been answered lately, > so what > we have upstream (as a result of various patches from folks, much > appreciated -- I know everyone has limited resources themselves) are in > an inconsistent state. > I feel bad leading users down a path where they are experimenting with > code we know isn't going to do everything they want. > > I won't mislead anyone, this is a large effort > * Porting all snippets > * Making repo/profile associations work > * Making import more streamlined, or otherwise unsupport it altogether > and provide better instructions > * koan --replace-self needs to work on Debian hosts > * koan --virt needs to work > * koan and cobbler need debian packaging updates for 2.0 > > If you have interest in seeing Debian working, you need to post up with > what you are working on and organize yourselves, or the feature will be > culled after 2.0, meanwhile I *will* be updating the Wiki docs to > indicate these features are in development and are experimental, not > something we suggest people use at this time. > > I need to know who's working on what, and when they expect it can be > completed, so we can make sure it's all going to be taken care of. > > SuSE support is in similar peril, with no import code, no snippets, etc. > > --Michael > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler >
Michael, While I don't use Debian myself, I am updating the firmware on my HP servers using the trick posted in the wiki which does use the Debian features already in Cobbler. Should it comes down to removing Debian support, is there any way to keep support for booting HP Smart Start and HP Firmware Update cds? Dominic _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
