Bug 679846

Created attachment 480536 [details]
temporary patch which fixes the problem

Description of problem:

If you call kickstart.profile.addScript()/removeScript() to add/remove script from kickstart profile, the related db entries get updated, but profile's kickstart template file doesn't so that generated kickstart file (through WebUI or during kickstart process) doesn't reflect the changes.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

spacewalk-java-1.2.39-29.el5sat (Sat 5.4, but the same problem is in Sat 5.3 too)


How reproducible:

Always


Steps to Reproduce:

1. Create a kickstart profile through WebUI

2. Run the following to add a post script into the kickstart profile (change server, user, pass and kslabel):

=== <snip> ===
#!/usr/bin/python

from xmlrpclib import Server
import xmlrpclib

satServer     = "server"
satUser       = "user"
satPasswd     = "pass"
ksLabel       = "kslabel"

satClient = Server('https://'+satServer+'/rpc/api')
satAuth = satClient.auth.login(satUser, satPasswd)

print satClient.kickstart.profile.addScript(satAuth, ksLabel, 'echo bla', '', 'post', True)
#print satClient.kickstart.profile.removeScript(satAuth, ksLabel, 26)
=== </snip> ===

3. Go to:

Systems -> Kickstart -> Profiles -> [profile] -> Kickstart File

or fire the following in your browser:

http://<sat_hostname>/cblr/svc/op/ks/profile/<ks_label>

and you can see that there isn't the post script we just added through the api.

  
Actual results:

calling both apis doesn't lead to kickstart change


Expected results:

it should change the kickstart appropriately


Additional info:

It seems that someone only forgot to add a routine which would re-generate the profile's kickstart template file as everything other works correctly - kickstart gets properly added into db so that it can be accessed and changed through Systems -> Kickstart -> Profiles -> [profile] -> Scripts. I can see in the source code that every other apis do that.

The current behaviour is that somebody creates a ks profile through WebUI, which is then written into template file in /var/lib/rhn/kickstarts/wizard/ with a lot of SNIPPET statements and when somebody wants to print the kickstart file, the related java code connects over http to cobbler, which then replace SNIPPETs and generates the kickstart file into its output, which is then printed by the java code.

The attached temporary patch fixes the probem.


Workaround:

If you call another api, which alters kickstart profile, after calling addScript()/removeScript(), it will lead to profile's kickstart template file re-generation so that changes made by addScript()/removeScript() get reflected. One of such apis is e.g. kickstart.profile.system.enableRemoteCommands()