Hi folks,
When provisionning with foreman, foreman will download the kernel and
initrd according to the source media.
Unfortunately, debian does not bundle non-free firmware inside the initrd,
and it's a real pain because most of my servers need non-free firmware for
network cards.
I've created a smal script wich grab the firmware tarball from debian
website, and add it to the initrd.
What i wanted to do now, it's to hook this script into foreman so everytime
it download a new kernel/initrd, it will merge firmware tarball inside.
So it seems that foreman_hooks plugin may be good for that.
My first question is :
Is the host/managed/after_build event good for this ?
And how can i know the name of the downloaded initrd ?
Regards,
>
> Hi folks,
>
I will answer myself 
>
> When provisionning with foreman, foreman will download the kernel and
> initrd according to the source media.
>
> Unfortunately, debian does not bundle non-free firmware inside the initrd,
> and it's a real pain because most of my servers need non-free firmware for
> network cards.
>
> I've created a smal script wich grab the firmware tarball from debian
> website, and add it to the initrd.
>
> What i wanted to do now, it's to hook this script into foreman so
> everytime it download a new kernel/initrd, it will merge firmware tarball
> inside.
>
>
> So it seems that foreman_hooks plugin may be good for that.
>
> My first question is :
>
> Is the host/managed/after_build event good for this ?
>
It is the right Event.
>
> And how can i know the name of the downloaded initrd ?
>
You have to build the initrd name from what you know about the host, say :
OS-Version-Arch-initrd.gz.
I've done a script using hammer for this, specific to Debian Host.
If someone interested in this script, or would like it for another distro,
feel free to tell me.
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Le jeudi 19 mars 2015 15:25:43 UTC+1, claude juif a écrit :
Regards,
