rsync -av --numeric-ids $IMAGESERVER::overrides/$OVERRIDE-$HOSTNAME/ /a/
so for script xyz it looks for an override directory of the form: /etc/systemimager/overrides/overrides/xyz-hostname
works like a champ. Now having played very much with flamethrower I don't know if it would be as straightforward to do there, but one can always hope. 8-)
I guess the big question is would there be any downside in implementing something like this in the standard tool? It's certainly simply enough to (at least for rsync) do and I can't think of any downsides.
The one major upside I can think of is this will now give one the ability to define additional network interfaces. In my case with redhat (I described in an earlier note that systemconfigurator doesn't seem to work correctly here) this worked like a champ. I just defined a set of host overrides for the one file /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/ifcfg-eth1 and all networks came up correctly on the target clients.
-mark
Mark Seger wrote:
As I understsand it, the overrides directory is named for the the installation script, making it possible to have multple installation scripts for the same image, but each with a different set of overrides.
I'd like to have host specific overrides and was wondering if such a mechanism currently exists or if I'd need to modify one of the installation scripts. My preference is not to have to modify anything.
Here's where I'm going with this -- ultimately, I'd like to be able to configure mulitple interfaces on my target machines but from what I can tell there's no simple way to do that. My thought is if I could automatically generate some network configuration files and just drop them in a host specific overrides directory systemimager could do the rest and when the system reboots configure itself according to them.
Actually, the more I think about it it feels like the right thing to do is extend the generation of the installation scripts to pass it network configuration information that could then get dealt with by SystemConfigurator. If this makes more sense I might be willing to raise my hand to make the necessary changes to 'mkautoinstallscript' to do that as the code in Server.pm looks pretty straightforward. If there is any interest perhaps we can start a more focused discussion on that topic.
-mark
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