Bug 51027
| Summary: | RFE: enhance loader to use 'nextserver' and 'bootfile' fields from dhcp to get kickstart file with http | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | bruno |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> |
| Status: | CLOSED DEFERRED | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 9 | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
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| Last Closed: | 2006-02-21 18:48:04 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Sounds like a feature request to consider for future releases. Deferring to future release. Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated. |
Description of problem: to get the kickstart file with http, a user has to supply the entire URL. loader should be enhanced to get the servername and filename from dhcp and construct the URL with these values (like the NFS method). How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: it's great that loader can now get the kickstart file with http, but it requires that user input the URL on the syslinux.cfg command line. (the code segment below shows that the function kickstartFromHttp() will return if no kickstart file is supplied). ================================================ current kickstartFromHttp() ================================================ if (ksSource) { ksPath = alloca(strlen(ksSource) + 1); strcpy(ksPath, ksSource); } else { logMessage("no location specified"); return 1; } ================================================ it would be better if loader could build a URL from the dhcp response if no URL is specified. ================================================ potential enhancement to kickstartFromHttp() ================================================ if (ksSource) { ksPath = alloca(strlen(ksSource) + 1); strcpy(ksPath, ksSource); } else { /* * build the path to the kickstart file from the DHCP response */ ksPath = alloca(strlen(file) + strlen(inet_ntoa(netDev.dev.nextServer)) + 70); strcpy(ksPath, inet_ntoa(netDev.dev.nextServer)); strcat(ksPath, file); } =============================================