Bug 855004

Summary: [RFE] cobbler support for Fedora 18 import
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jason Montleon <jmontleo>
Component: cobblerAssignee: James C. <jimi>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 17CC: awood, braoru, jimi, mteixeira, scott, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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Description Jason Montleon 2012-09-06 13:54:28 UTC
Description of problem:
Cobbler can not import Fedora 18. It fails with the error message:
cobbler import --name fedora-18-alpha --arch x86_64 --breed redhat --path /root/f18/
task started: 2012-09-06_095120_import
task started (id=Media import, time=Thu Sep  6 09:51:20 2012)
Warning: No distro signature for kernel at /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/fedora-18-alpha-x86_64, using value from command line
adding distros
No distros imported, bailing out
!!! TASK FAILED !!!

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
cobbler-2.2.3-2.fc17.noarch

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download Fedora 18
2. Try to import into cobbler on Fedora 17 
  
Actual results:
import fails with the error message:

Expected results:
import succeeds

Additional info:
The Fedora 18 DVD iso now has directories [a-z] under Packages, and from what I can tell this causes cobbler to break when importing.

Changing /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cobbler/modules/manage_import_redhat.py to read like below and restarting cobblerd gets Fedora 18 imports working, but it seems to break other rhel/fedora imports, so it doesn't seem to be quite the right answer.

    # required function for import modules
    def check_for_signature(self,path,cli_breed):
       signatures = [
          'RedHat/RPMS',
          'RedHat/rpms',
          'RedHat/Base',
          'Fedora/RPMS',
          'Fedora/rpms',
          'CentOS/RPMS',
          'CentOS/rpms',
          'CentOS',
          'Packages',
          'Packages/a',
          'Packages/b',
          'Packages/c',
          'Packages/d',
          'Packages/e',
          'Packages/f',
          'Packages/g',
          'Packages/h',
          'Packages/i',
          'Packages/j',
          'Packages/k',
          'Packages/l',
          'Packages/m',
          'Packages/n',
          'Packages/o',
          'Packages/p',
          'Packages/q',
          'Packages/r',
          'Packages/s',
          'Packages/t',
          'Packages/u',
          'Packages/v',
          'Packages/w',
          'Packages/x',
          'Packages/y',
          'Packages/z',
          'Fedora',
          'Server',
          'Client',
          'SL',
       ]

(
instead of:

    # required function for import modules
    def check_for_signature(self,path,cli_breed):
       signatures = [
          'RedHat/RPMS',
          'RedHat/rpms',
          'RedHat/Base',
          'Fedora/RPMS',
          'Fedora/rpms',
          'CentOS/RPMS',
          'CentOS/rpms',
          'CentOS',
          'Packages',
          'Fedora',
          'Server',
          'Client',
          'SL',
       ]
)

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