[Bug 1044503] Re: kernel command line is not easily customizable

[Julian Edwards]

On Wednesday 10 October 2012 19:25:24 you wrote:
> On 10 Oct 2012 20:15, "Andres Rodriguez" <andreserl at ubuntu-pe.org> wrote:
> > I believe we should be able to add an attribute to the Node model. This
> > way, we can define a global config that will apply to all nodes. If a
> > particular node needs to change the attributes, it should be possible to
> > do that independently.
> 
> We need to think about sets of machines, as identified by tags or whatever,
> rather than individual nodes. The templates that generate the PXE
> configurations are already arranged for that kind of thing, but it has
> proven to be complicated in practice. We should be as smart as we can and
> do everything we can before giving users a free-form field in which to
> enter extra bits of the command line.

I think doing it by tags is the smartest way, as it offers the most 
flexibility, fits with the existing UI and doesn't require more special cases.

The *implementation* of where the data is stored for nodes with that tag, 
however, is up for grabs.  Per node?  A tag/kernel_opt table?

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  kernel command line is not easily customizable

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