Bug#590044: RFH: cobbler -- Install server

["Jesús M. Navarro" <jesus.navarro@undominio.net>]

Hi, Martijn:

On Friday 23 July 2010 10:13:08 Martijn van Brummelen wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: normal
>
> I request assistance with packagin Cobbler.
> Im looking for someone to co-maintain the Cobbler package or perhaps start
> a "cobbler-team" it needs a lot of work to get it in shape.
> Anyone who is interested feel free to contact me.

Well, AFAIK it is not only that it's a complex bunch of software to package 
but that it's very Redhat-centric so to be of use on a Debian environment 
there's a lot of upstream work involved too.  At the very least:
 * Install templating (something instead of Kickstart, maybe FAI and/or d-i 
support)
 * Package management/mirroring (something instead of Yum, maybe aptitude 
support and/or apt-cacher-ng)
 * In order not to crash against a wall, will these efforts integrate nicely 
with Spacewalk?

All in all, I'm quite interested on these issues (automated 
deployment/configuration/management) and I feel Debian is a bit seing the 
tail lights og the redhat-ish world, so I may find time to help a bit.

Cheers.