On 07/01/2011 08:00 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Send cobbler mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of cobbler digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. 'cobbler get-loaders' through http proxy? (David Lee) > 2. clean use of cobbler/kickstart and cfengine (David Lee) > 3. Re: clean use of cobbler/kickstart and cfengine (Jonathan Sabo) > 4. Re: 'cobbler get-loaders' through http proxy? (J?rgen Maas) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:18:18 +0100 > From: David Lee<[email protected]> > Subject: 'cobbler get-loaders' through http proxy? > To: [email protected] > Message-ID:<[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > (I'm new to cobbler, and using v 2.0.11) > > 'cobbler check' is advising: > > 1 : some network boot-loaders are missing from /var/lib/cobbler/loaders, > you may run 'cobbler get-loaders' to download them, or, if you only want > to handle x86/x86_64 netbooting, you may ensure that you have installed > a *recent* version of the syslinux package installed and can ignore this > message entirely. > > It so happens that we are, at present, entirely 'x86_64', using RHEL 5.6 > and above, and all seems well. So in my case I probably don't need to > go any further at present. (Correct?) > > But when, for the fun of it, I tried 'cobbler get-loaders' it appeared > to hang. I strongly suspect that this is because we need http proxying > to reach off-site, and it isn't clear whether 'cobbler get-loaders' > uses, or can use, http proxying (either by command argument or > environment variable). Have I missed something in the documentation?
May I suggest reviewing: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666435 Marcelo proposed patches to fix this, but within Satellite. The Satellite team though is not supporting 'get-loaders' with our integration of cobbler. Marcelo - care to propose the same fix upstream to cobbler. Cliff > _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
