Hi,
here's sth. which didn't work in some earlier versions (don't remember when
I last tried it) but is working at least in 10.1 alpha4. I can now use
this rule in rules.xml to chose a profile for each host based on its
name.
This works only if the host gets its name via dhcp, so this is sth.
especially nice for pxe-based installations. I provide this as example
for other people and hope that someone can make use of it :-) This
is a solution for the non-working <hostname> matching, because the
<hostname> tag contains the IP and not the hostname, even when
using pxe/dhcp.
<rule>
<custom1>
<script>
<![CDATA[
#!/bin/sh
. /var/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-eth0.info
echo -n $HOSTNAME
]]>
</script>
<match>*</match>
exact
</custom1>
<result>
<profile>profiles/part_@custom1@.xml</profile>
<continue config:type="boolean">true</continue>
</result>
</rule>
I use this to store partition information per host in a file
part_<hostname>.xml in the profile subdir. No need to change
the rules.xml anymore, just create the profile with the partition
information. In these profiles, I always keep partitions, formatting
only / and /var. In case I really really want to destroy and recreate
partitions for a specific host, I add another rule afterwards, e.g.
<rule>
<custom1>
<script>
<![CDATA[
#!/bin/sh
. /var/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-eth0.info
echo -n $HOSTNAME
]]>
</script>
<match>riemann</match>
exact
</custom1>
<result>
<profile>profiles/part_riemann_createnew.xml</profile>
<continue config:type="boolean">true</continue>
</result>
</rule>
or, IP-based:
<rule>
<hostaddress>
<match>141.x.x.x</match>
exact
</hostaddress>
<result>
<profile>profiles/part_riemann_keep.xml</profile>
<continue config:type="boolean">true</continue>
</result>
</rule>
to override the common selection.
Have fun!
cu,
Frank
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