[et-mgmt-tools] koan-0.6.3-3.el4.mrh - kix templating - network rebuilt issue

[Tom Brown]

Hi

I have been 'improving' my kix and starting to use templating and using 
variables e.g

I use snippets in the network config and that looks like this

# cat /var/lib/cobbler/snippets/network_select
network --bootproto=static --device=eth0 --onboot=on --ip=$ip_address  
--netmask=$netmask  --gateway=$gateway --nameserver=$nameserver 
--hostname=$hostname

and to build a machine i do something like this

# cat buildbox.sh
#!/bin/sh
cobbler system add --name=$1 --mac=$2 --ksmeta="ip_address=$3 
netmask=255.255.255.0 hostname=$4 nameserver=192.168.10.4 gateway=$5" 
--profile=$6

I would then do something like the following to build a box

# ./buildbox.sh 00:0C:29:71:D7:4D 192.168.10.25 foobar 192.168.10.1 
CentOS-4.5-i386

These will build fine - but here is the issue.

When i use koan to rebuild the box using the same profile then 
everything is fine eg

# koan -r -s build-server

Now if i try to rebuild to a different profile that is available on the 
server e.g

# koan -p CentOS-4.4-i386 -r -s build-server

the kix details appear correct but on reboot the install stops on the IP 
configuration screen, ie waiting for manual input

Has anyone else seen this or know of workarounds? If i manually put 
network into into the ks.cfg then the rebuild works as expected?

thanks