[hobbit] clientupdate problems

Sveinn G. Gunnarsson sveinn at sveinng.com
Sat Mar 17 17:34:07 CET 2007


Hi all.

I am still strugling with this problem. Has anyone had similar experience?
And even some workarounds? :-)


Thanks !
Svenni

Sveinn G. Gunnarsson wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I am a long time user and fan of Hobbit :-)
> So thank you all for your hard work on the project!
>
>
> I am having trouble with the clientupdate part, and I belive I might have
> found a bug, or just misunderstood the whole thing :)
>
>
> Here is my scenario:
>
> I am installing hobbit client on our ESX3 servers, and I decided to assign
> a special class (esx3) to those machines in the bb-hosts file:
>
> 192.168.xxx.xxx   VMWARE01        # CLASS:esx3
>
>
> In client-local.cfg I have a section for the class:
>
> [esx3]
> clientversion:hobbit-esx3-v01
>
>
>
> When I want to push out a new version, I place a new tarball in
> $BBHOME/download, in my case hobbit-esx3-v02.tar, and bump the
> clientversion reference in client-local.cfg to:
>
> [esx3]
> clientversion:hobbit-esx3-v02
>
>
> But, what happens, is that only one client will update it self. If I bump
> the clientversion again, another one client will update and so on.
>
>
>
> I am running the latest Hobbit server, with latest all-in-one patch on AIX
> 5300-05-03. On the clientside, I am also running latest and greatest, on
> ESX 3.0.1.
>
>
>
> Best regards,
> Svenni
>
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