Re: Allow multiple snippets directories

petermity <6t12-n6js(a)dea.spamcon.org&gt; wrote: >James Cammarata <jimi(a)sngx.net&gt; wrote: > >>On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 1:20 AM, petermity <6t12-n6js(a)dea.spamcon.org&gt; wrote: >>> Christian Horn <chorn(a)fluxcoil.net&gt; wrote: >>> >>>>On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 08:49:03PM -0700, petermity wrote: >>>>> Please allow multiple directories to be listed for "snippetsdir". >>>>> >>>>> I like keeping my snippet files separate from the default Cobbler >>>>> ones. >>>> >>>>Just >>>>- placing custom snippets in a completely own directory structure >>>>- an placing a symlink 'cust' to the directory structure in the >>>>default snippets directory >>>> >>>>works nice here. >>>>This provides a nice overview, from having first part 'cust' when >>>>including the snippet you can easily distinguish your snippets vs. >>>>cobbler provided ones. >>> >>> Please read my post.  I tried what you described first, and it >>> did not work well.  Mainly, it breaks the hierarchy capability >>> described in: >>> https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/KickstartSnippets#AdvancedSnippets >> >>Creating subdirectories in /var/lib/cobbler/snippets works well, just >>do 'subdir/snippet' for the name. It should work fine if you want to >>have multiple levels like >>sub1/sub2/snippet. I don't think moving things to multiple top-level >>directories is a good idea. > >Again, no it does not work. The hierarchy capability only fully works >within the directory specified in the settings file's snippetsdir. I posted an enhancement request on this: https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/ticket/662