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[Andres Rodriguez <andreserl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The only thing that comes into my mind right now is download the new
iso, mount it, then rsync it to the location where it lives whithing
cobbler, and then do cobbler sync.

Cobbler sync should re-create the hardlinks, as it puts the kernel and
initrd in a different location, which are used by the PXE file.

Other thing that comes into my mind is to:

1. Download new ISO
2. Import it with oneiric-<date>-<arch>
3. Change the child profile (-ensemble) to point to the parent profile above (oneiric-<date>-<arch>)
4. Remove old profile

This way, we would point the -ensemble profile to the newly imported,
and then, once the old one is removed, then the systems wont be deleted
as the -ensemble profile will be pointing to the newer profile at the
time of deletion.

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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 if '1' is fixed, it would not do out-of-date checking and thus waste bandwidth.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  import have a '--out-of-date-check' flag that would then check if an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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