rules and classes

20 Oct 2004

      Hi there,

i know, there are enough topics with the same question...
I've see the answer of Anas, he said that the documentation is updatet, but
i didn't find any new information about rules and classes.

in my repository folder I created the folders rules/, /classes
in the rules directory i put my rules.xml, that w0rks pretty good! I also
put some class files in my classes folder (with subdir)
and it works fine, too.

But is it possible to merge some different configuration sections (which
are saved in different files)

like  software.xml      base.xml    network.xml

so that i could define a rule (check about the mac adress) or more rules to
merge these 3 parts of control file to a new (master) controlfile?

when i define a two rules like this:

    <rule>
            <disksize>
                    <match>/dev/hda 1</match>
                    greater
            </disksize>
                    <result>
                            <profile>base</profile>
                            <continue config:type="boolean">true</continue>
            </result>
    </rule>

    <rule>
      <mac>
              <match>000475fcedbf</match>
        exact
      </mac>
      <result>
              <profile>base.xml</profile>
              <continue config:type="boolean">false</continue>
      </result>
    </rule>

i want to merge the base.xml and network.xml (in my base.xml are no
definitions about the network options)

I tried these kind of config, it works, but without my network settings.
So the autoinstall process didn't merge these files

I know, that kind of solutions isn't the right way, but i didnt know
better, please help me :o)

Finally i want to create some rules (and/or) classes to have only 1 base
controlfile and some network config templates with different settings for
each machine.

Thx
best regards
Kai Möller

rules and classes

Kai Moeller