On Jun 5, 2012, at 7:01 PM, Greg Swift wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Dan White <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I just updated from 2.0.11-2.el5 to 2.2.2-1.el5
>> 
>> Things burped momentarily while I swapped out mod_python and repaired the 
>> effected config files, but that took no time at all.
>> 
>> I brought up the new Web-UI and one of the first things to catch my eye was 
>> the Resources heading with Packages and Files under it.
>> 
>> Looking for details, I found some on the "Start Here" Wiki Page:
>> https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/wiki/Start%20Here
>> ...under a sub-heading of "Management Classes and Resources"
>> 
>> It describes how to add a package or file resource.
> Which happens on the two pages Packages and Files.

A link to these pages would be nice.
All I can find about packages is this:
https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/wiki/Package%20Management%20and%20Mirroring
and that is more about yum mirroring

BTW, here's how I am looking:
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:github.com+cobbler+package

> 
>> It implies that these resources can be grouped into a management class.
> Which happens under the Resouces expansion when editing a management class

Again, a link, please ?

>> It then references another wiki page: 
>> https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/wiki/Built%20in%20configuration%20management
> So I believe that is most specifically if you intent is to use Cobbler
> as the CMS.  If you are just using cobbler as an external node for
> puppet (or whichever CM you are working with) then this page is not
> relevant.
> 
>> This page talks about "Template files" and "Leveraging Mod Python" (how do I 
>> leverage that which I just removed?)
>> It contains nothing about file/package resources.
> So the Leveraging Mod Python definitely needs to be updated.  I'm not
> sure how this is handled with wsgi.  The template files is referring
> to the same files in Resources (I believe).  You have to place your
> template file on the file system and configure it in the Resources ->
> Files section.
> 
>> Google-ing about produced a moderate amount of very confusing results, none 
>> that help.
>> 
>> Where, please, do I find details on these resource types and how to use them 
>> ?
> 
> The documentation is very much a how you use it, not here is how you
> do X, Y, or Z with it.  With that in mind, what are you trying to
> accomplish?

Definitely a chicken-and-egg dilemma.
Unless I know what the feature is capable of, I have no expectations.
I am trying to understand what it can do so that I can figure out how I might 
utilize it.

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