distro-specific logic in python-cobbler

[JudeN]

Version: Linux Mint 16 Petra / Cinamon 64-bit

Installed cobbler-web package, consistently got a <Fault 1 "<class: 'cobbler.cexceptions.CX'>:'login failed'"> exception when visiting http://localhost/cobbler_web BEFORE reaching any sort of login screen

The problem ended up being that /var/lib/cobbler/web.ss was owned by root:root instead of www-data:www-data
When I manually changed the ownership of the file to www-data:www-data, http://localhost/cobbler_web worked

I traced this to the this line in the source:
https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/precise/cobbler/precise/view/head:/cobbler/cobblerd.py#L68

It looks like the line
  if utils.check_dist() in [ "debian", "ubuntu" ]:

should be
  if utils.check_dist() in [ "debian", "ubuntu",'linuxmint' ]:

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

feel free to submit that upstream

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

does mint have /etc/debian_version?

[chemicalfan (mike-lumsden)]

As per tjaalton's comment, please submit this as a patch against upstream cobbler, and it will be fixed upstream

[Nish Aravamudan (nacc)]

Cobbler in 16.10 correctly installs web.ss as:

-rw------- 1 www-data root 1.0K Jul 7 23:42 /var/lib/cobbler/web.ss