I would use them and have used them in the past, even filing a bug report when they first broke. Some sort of inheritance would be great for profiles.
Cheers, Harry On Jul 17, 2014 4:37 AM, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rgen_Maas?= <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I was just wondering who would use subprofiles ;-). > We have another issue with them, even from the cli.... (see: > https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/issues/1030) > > But to answer your question: i'm pretty sure there's no such setting to > enable the selection of distros from cobbler-web > I assume the distro can't be changed because that is fetched from the parent > profile. > > I will take a look... > > > On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 10:24 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> cobbler and cobbler-web at 2.6.1-7.1. >> >> Sub profiles cannot select distros from the drop down on the web page. Is >> there a setting as to whether sub profiles can be edited or not? I thought >> they were just like profiles and take values from the parent if a value is >> not set? I created the sub profile from the web page. I had problems >> selecting other options and had to set them from the command line. >> >> Reason I want a parent profile is I want to put all my templated files in >> there, have a generic el6 parent and then use sub profiles to select >> different distros (rh/centos/si-linux varying versions of el6, minor >> release, etc) and pass a ksmeta flag to select different builds (we like to >> reduce the number of kickstarts to maintain and just have one that does >> everything). >> >> Functionality from the command line is fine. >> >> Let me know if a new version is coming soon :) >> >> Thanks in advance >> >> Alastair >> _______________________________________________ >> cobbler mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > > > > > -- > Grtz, > Jörgen Maas _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
