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[Andres Rodriguez <andreserl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Adam.

I've looked at your patches. They look good. However, there's something
that we shouldn't be doing. I've seen that to update the ISO's you would
be removing a profile. correct?

If you do so, then the system that points to a profile (or subprofile
for which a parent profile gets removed) then the system will be
*automatically* removed from the system list. So, this means that we
*should not* remove a profile, but rather update its contents and run a
cobbler sync operation to create the hardlinks and stuff (We'll have to
test that doing so really updates the initrd and kernel).

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/850892

Title:
  orchestra-import-isos does not update

Status in “cobbler” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in “orchestra” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  currently, ubuntu-orchestra-provisioning-server will install a cron
  job in /etc/cron.d/orchestra-import-isos that runs weekly.

  That runs /usr/sbin/orchestra-import-isos , which does has code like this:
        # Skip if cobbler already has this distro/arch combo
        if ! (cobbler distro list | grep -qs " $r-$a$"); then
           # Import the iso
           cobbler-ubuntu-import $r-$a
        fi

  The stanza there makes sense to not waste bandwidth, but it is insufficient in 2 ways:
   1.) it will not update the development release (even from an iso imported during development to a released iso), which ensures that the user will have failed installs of development releases. (bug 850886)
   2.) if '1' is fixed, it would not do out-of-date checking and thus waste bandwidth.

  I think the most reasonable way to fix this is to have cobbler-ubuntu-
  import have a '--out-of-date-check' flag that would then check if an
  update was needed against a timestamp or file.  Then orchestra could
  just check if an update was needed and if so do it, otherwise
  continue.

  related bugs:
   bug 850886: cobbler-ubuntu-import results in possibly stale netboot kernels 
   bug 850880: cobbler-ubuntu-import does not pull from -updates
   bug 850892: orchestra-import-isos does not update

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