Never mind, I see this in the second patch. Anyone else want to offer thoughts (and testing?) before I pull this?
https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/66 --Michael On Monday, February 13, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Michael DeHaan wrote: > Basically, it should/could still source the same variables as before, right? > > > > On Monday, February 13, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Jim Nachlin wrote: > > > Pull request submitted. > > > > Maybe someone else will chime in as to the logic of trying different > > reg systems. I am a bit of a novice at certificate-based RHN, so > > please bear with me. It's my impression that not many people are > > using it yet, anyway. > > > > Regards, > > Jim > > > > On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Michael DeHaan > > <michael.deh...@gmail.com (mailto:michael.deh...@gmail.com)> wrote: > > > > > > On Monday, February 13, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Jim Nachlin wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Michael DeHaan > > > <michael.deh...@gmail.com (mailto:michael.deh...@gmail.com)> wrote: > > > > > > Thanks… > > > > > > Probably some existence check to see if subscription-manager is present > > > and > > > then falling back to the old way rhn_register way if that's installed > > > instead sounds reasonable. > > > > > > > > > Hi Michael, > > > > > > It makes a lot of sense to ensure that subscription-manager is > > > present. I'm not sure about falling back to the other way, though. > > > My thinking is that a shop will probably either want to use the new > > > cert-based registration or the old one, and not have the old one > > > available as a fallback. That is, if you are going with cert-based > > > registration and the registration fails, you probably just want to > > > fail and not register (but not fail completely!). > > > > > > > > > Yeah, so the script would just figure out which one to use, is what I was > > > suggesting. > > > > > > What you said was cert based seemed to still take a username/password from > > > what you pasted. > > > I suppose if it took a cert the field could hold the cert value and it > > > could > > > try the cert value first. > > > > > > I'm not opposed to the system trying all three methods as long as it does > > > decent error handling > > > and doesn't crash the installer. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Cobbler should already be laying out the yum.repos.d files ok and > > > shouldn't > > > need to do the channel enablement -- many users are going to be mirroring > > > channels onto their cobbler server anyway, and using stock yum, so I don't > > > *think* this needs a new parameter to work with the channel enablement. > > > Maybe it should though. > > > > > > > > > OK. I did not know that. In my case, it seemed to be necessary to > > > enable the repos explicitly, because there's no longer an > > > rhn.redhat,com where I can go and add the channels. > > > > > > > > > Patches are pretty easy -- Basically it's just forking the project on > > > github > > > and then sending github.com/cobbler/cobbler > > > (http://github.com/cobbler/cobbler) a pull request. > > > > > > Anyway, one thing at a time -- send me a patch or the > > > subscription-register > > > part and we can perhaps figure out if channel enablement should be there > > > or > > > not separately? > > > > > > > > > I don't have a patch. The way I did it was to create a complete file. > > > If there's a way to create a patch for a new file, I can't figure it > > > out! > > > > > > I will send you a pull request, though. > > > > > > > > > git-format-patch has some special magic in it. > > > > > > Anyway, the github pull request is easier as it allows web based merge and > > > such, plus maintains the queue of patches > > > we need to review. > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Jim > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Monday, February 13, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Jim Nachlin wrote: > > > > > > Hi List, > > > > > > Red Hat is moving to a new, "certificate-based" registration system. > > > They are doing away with rhn_register and moving to > > > subscription-manager. > > > > > > Here is a trivial but possibly useful snippet which we have saved as > > > /var/lib/cobbler/snippets/install-puppet: > > > > > > > > > # Subscribe (register) the system > > > subscription-manager register --autosubscribe --username=XXXXXXX > > > --password=XXXXXXXXXX > > > > > > # Add what used to be called channels > > > yum -y install yum-utils > > > yum-config-manager --enable rhel-6-server-optional-rpms > > > yum-config-manager --enable rhel-6-server-supplementary > > > > > > > > > I don't know the process for adding it to the cobbler github project, > > > and I'd want to make the username and password into settings rather > > > than having them hard coded, but I am open to doing that work and > > > adding it if it is wanted. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Jim > > > _______________________________________________ > > > cobbler-devel mailing list > > > cobbler-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org > > > (mailto:cobbler-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org) > > > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler-devel > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > cobbler-devel mailing list > > > cobbler-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org > > > (mailto:cobbler-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org) > > > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler-devel > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > cobbler-devel mailing list > > > cobbler-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org > > > (mailto:cobbler-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org) > > > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler-devel > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > cobbler-devel mailing list > > > cobbler-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org > > > (mailto:cobbler-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org) > > > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler-devel > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > cobbler-devel mailing list > > cobbler-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org > > (mailto:cobbler-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org) > > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler-devel > > > > > > > >
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