[katello-devel] Our bootstrap script and goferd

[Justin Sherrill]

On 09/10/2012 12:00 PM, Bryan Kearney wrote:
> On 09/10/2012 11:57 AM, Eric Sammons wrote:
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> On 09/10/2012 11:26 AM, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
>>>> On 09/10/2012 04:45 PM, Eric Sammons wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Does Spacewalk have a bootstrap RPM? If so, should we?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -- bk
>>>>>
>>>>> Satellite has (had) a bootstrap "script" as I recall.
>>>>
>>>> Yes.
>>>> https://sputnik-prod.brq.redhat.com/pub/bootstrap/bootstrap.sh
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> So.. this is a download and edit type of thing? If so, I will put it
>>> on
>>> the backlog.
>>> -- bk
>>>
>>
>> Back in the day there was no requirement to edit the file.  I'm not 
>> sure if the file was updated during the install / configuration 
>> process or not so that after configuration edits were not required.  
>> As I recall this was a download and run as is on the local system to 
>> get your rhn configurations and certs set up correctly.  (essentially 
>> what our current bootstrap rpm does).
>>
>> -Eric
>>

Yes the script was generated with the correct hostname and filenames 
filled out and the user had to edit it once to fill in an activation 
key.  For a new proxy, the user could just copy the script and change 
the hostname listed in the file.  You did have to use activation keys, 
becaues the purpose of it was to do unintended installs.  If the desire 
is to prompt for username/password, that could be easily done too.

One thing we will probably need is to worry more about multiple 
organizations, whether that be generating a new bootstrap script for 
each org, or allowing the user to easily generate one for his org to use.

-Justin
> The comments say you need to use activation keys.
>
> -- bk
>
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