Sorry, it was typed very quickly. Go to the cfengine site and find their yum repository link. Take the URL from there and use it to add a local repo in cobbler. Make sure to select "keep local". Then you'll have a cfengine repo. Edit your profile and add the repo from available repos to included repos. Then choose cfengine-community in your package selection in the kickstart, at either the profile or system level. Make sense? I might have some cobbler terms wrong, I'm on the train and not looking at it directly.

After the package is installed you need a snippet to have it bootstrap. Since this is a post install step the package is already installed so you just need to call cf-agent like you show below. I believe you still need either a failsafe or update cf file on the installed system. I can check if you need.

Cheers, Harry jehan procaccia <jehan.procaccia(a)tem-tsp.eu&gt; wrote: > it's not clear to what you mean by "add a repo line" !? > what I did so far is put cfengine rpm package into cobbler this way: > > [root@cobbler2 f19-x86_64-perso]# ls > cfengine-community-3.5.1-1.x86_64.rpm > [root@cobbler2 f19-x86_64-perso]# createrepo . > #cobbler repo add --name=f19-x86_64-perso > --mirror=/var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/f19-x86_64-perso > > is it why you meant by "add a repo line" ? > now for the 1st step, where can I tell the install process to install > that package ? in cobbler , in kickstart, how ? > > regarding the next step (2) => bootstrap the cfengine client, in > cfengine3 is it really necessary to copy failsafe.cf ? > a /var/cfengine/bin/cf-agent --bootstrap --policy-server X.X.X.X would > be enough no ? > but again, how can I tell cobbler to run that step2 after step1 > (install cfengine package) is completed ? > > thanks . > Le 18/07/2013 22:27, Harry Hoffman a écrit : >> Hi Jehan, >> >> Add a repo line for the cfengine repository, >> >> Assuming a cfengine3 deployment copy over your failsafe.cf (via a >> snippet) to bootstrap the process >> >> >> Cheers, >> Harry >> >> On 07/18/2013 04:08 PM, jehan procaccia wrote: >>> I use cobbler 2.4 to install fedora19 stations >>> I want to be able to install cfengine (todays latest rpm package 3.5.1) >>> via cobbler . >>> what is the best practice to do that ? >>> I suspect the necessity of: >>> 1) a personnal/local repository containing cfengine-3.5.1 package >>> 2) a snippet or post install to force a yum install of cfengine from >>> that repo >>> 3) a post install script command to bootstrap the client station >>> (register the client to cfengine policyserver) >>> I also heard of triggers ... is there a documentation/howto do that ? >>> Thanks. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> cobbler mailing list >>> cobbler(a)lists.fedorahosted.org >>> https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler >> _______________________________________________ >> cobbler mailing list >> cobbler(a)lists.fedorahosted.org >> https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler