Bug #10841
closed
Foreman adds Operating systems no matter what
Added by Yama Kasi over 9 years ago.
Updated over 7 years ago.
Description
Foreman looks into the Description and doesn't care Major/Minor releases it seems.
Foreman just looks at the Description of a Operatingsystem when it's set different than the "Name Major.Minor" naming it takes "Name Major.Minor" as name and just create a new Operating System.
So if you have:
Name: CentOS
Major: 7
Minor: 1.XXXX
Description CentOS 7.1 Build XXXX
It creates a new Operating system CentOS 7.1 with an empty description after a puppetrun.
Your hosts will be indexed under the new repo 7.1 and you are "screwed" with your setup.
- Category set to Facts
- Priority changed from High to Normal
- Difficulty deleted (
easy)
Foreman parses operating system version facts so that it considers major to be 7 and minor to be 1, not 1.XXXX, description is not involved at all. Since your existing OS is set to have minor 1.XXXX, it's not matched and a new OS is created. You can change your minor version (which might affect installation medium, where you'd have to hardcode the XXXX release).
- Related to Bug #6884: Centos mirror in "Installation Media" doesn't work for versions without $minor added
Hi,
I don't agree there.
As Foreman doesn't work with builds and CentOS point Major 7 to 7.1 facts will create a 7.1 OS.
So what happens:
You install 7 from a template (which is 7.1 or 7.2 (future) or...) it gets installed and is placed under a 7.1 OS as count or new install.
That is a problem that Foreman creates and not CentOS. I have asked CentOS but they won't change it.
Their major release always points to the latest minor release, that is, which will contain a buildnumber from now on since 7.x
Hardcoding is just a dirty fix.
So what do you suggest? Adding build field to OS that are RedHat family? Modifying parsing sounds like another hack.
- Status changed from New to Resolved
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