one thing i did find out is you can also manually upload a kickstart into cobbler and whats interesting is that the server provisioning page can see and seems to be able to use it.
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Cypher <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Paul, > yes, having user/passwords in environment variable is better than having > them as CLI options. I just didnt care because our spacewalk can only be > accessed by root users anyways. But any Pull-Request is welcome. > > I havent done much kickstarting Ubuntu besides what I wrote in my blog and > that was more experimenting/prototyping. However I'am interested in getting > all features of Spacewalk to work with/for Ubuntu without the need of > patching around. > So I will be watching out for your RFEs and see how I could be of help. I > have opened some myself already.. > > Best, Phil > > On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 12:44 AM, Paul Robert Marino <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> hey Phil >> >> I'm testing some of your scripts so far so good. I'm thinking I may if i >> have time write some patches to some and submit them via a pull request. I >> gennerally dont like the idea of putting user names and passwords as >> command line options because they show up in ps and top so in my scripts i >> alway give users the option to use environment variables for them instead. >> That said the ones Ive tested so far are working as well or better than I >> expected. >> good job! Thanks for publicly publishing them with your blog. >> >> I still haven't gotten around to testing adding kickstart distros but I >> will probably get to it in the next coupe of days. when I'm done I intend >> to submit a list of RFE's so we can get it to work through the web >> interface. the first one is already published here >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1227499 and there will be >> more to come. Ive already determined that the list of distros seems to be >> hard coded in the page and should be moved to the database in fact there >> are already tables in the database which contain most of the information >> needed. infact the API uses the database table rhnksinstalltype whats >> missing from the database is the breed and list of path information. there >> also seems to be a way to add an externally managed kickstart tree that im >> looking into next. >> >> >> The more i think about it though the simplest long term solution would be >> for spacewalk to get this information from >> http://www.cobblerd.org/signatures/latest.json like cobbler does. could >> also allow spacewalk in the future to automatically create a distro tree >> from an ISO image. >> >> Does any one else have any ideas on this before I write an RFE? >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 8:17 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> That's awesome but I think you may be able to avoid the changing the >>> url= to ks= issue by using Centos6 instead of 7 as the distro. That said it >>> shouldn't be too hard to update the interface to accept debian and or >>> ubuntu as a valid distro type since cobbler already supports it. >>> >>> Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone. >>> *From: *[email protected] >>> *Sent: *Tuesday, May 5, 2015 19:55 >>> *To: *[email protected] >>> *Reply To: *[email protected] >>> *Subject: *Re: [Spacewalk-list] Did any one notice Ubuntu and debian >>> added kickstart support to their installer some time last year >>> >>> I wrote a blog post about getting spacewalk to work with kickstarting >>> Ubuntu/Debian. >>> >>> http://www.devops-blog.net/spacewalk/kickstarting-and-provisioning-ubuntu-systems-with-spacewalk >>> >>> Best, Phil >>> >>> Am Dienstag, 5. Mai 2015 um 22:10 schrieb [email protected]: >>> >>> It looks like koan is now even included too >>> >>> Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone. >>> *From: *[email protected] >>> *Sent: *Tuesday, May 5, 2015 16:07 >>> *To: *Spacewalk Users List; spacewalk-devel >>> *Subject: *Did any one notice Ubuntu and debian added kickstart support >>> to their installer some time last year >>> >>> >>> Hello every one it's been a while. I suddenly found my self working with >>> Ubuntu and was looking through the documentation and it looks like they >>> both support kickstart files now. >>> >>> I also noticed that cobbler has documentation about debian and ubuntu too >>> >>> Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Spacewalk-list mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Spacewalk-list mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Spacewalk-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Spacewalk-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list >
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