Bug 574197

Summary:	Command line tftp client can't handle : in the profiles that are synced from spacewalk to cobbler
Product:	[Community] Spacewalk	Reporter:	Rob See <rob>
Component:	Server	Assignee:	Justin Sherrill <jsherril>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Red Hat Satellite QA List <satqe-list>
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Priority:	low
Version:	0.8	CC:	jsherril, rob
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Description Rob See 2010-03-16 20:28:08 UTC

Description of problem:
The standard command-line tftp client under linux is unable to download the kernel and initrd images from spacewalk profiles on cobbler server because they contain a : in the path. The tftp client interprets this as the host:/path specification and gets confused. The is a problem for the xen bootloader pypxeboot. 

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How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1.use pypxeboot in combination with a spacewalk profile on cobbler

  
Actual results:
fail

Expected results:
a machine that boots

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Comment 1 Justin Sherrill 2010-03-17 15:53:29 UTC

fixed in spacewalk master: 
6eab1c0de64bffc0ad4a6596eb73ccbc38595fab
88706d3f044bf1c58572cb90787f5dcbb1eac234

new config option "cobbler.name.separator"

For example, to change the separator to a single dash, simply add:

cobbler.name.separato = -


to /etc/rhn/rhn.conf

Comment 2 Miroslav Suchý 2010-05-05 14:57:15 UTC

This bug has been fixed in Spacewalk 1.0.
Closing.