[ovirt-users] list of answer file parameters?

[Yedidyah Bar David]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jorick Astrego" <j.astrego at netbulae.eu>
> Cc: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2014 3:23:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] list of answer file parameters?
> 
> 
> On 08/17/2014 02:01 PM, Yedidyah Bar David wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Jorick Astrego" <j.astrego at netbulae.eu>
> >> To: users at ovirt.org
> >> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2014 5:24:04 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] list of answer file parameters?
> > [snip]
> >> As ovirt-cleanup is not working and reinstall fails with "detail: Cannot
> >> create Data Center. The Data Center name is already in use.", I'd like to
> >> drop the database when I rerun the installer. I found:
> >>
> >> OVESETUP_REMOVE
> >>
> >> But I don't know what to tell it..
> >>
> >> Kind regards,
> >> Jorick Astrego
> >>
> >>
> >> Just to head you off, I can drop the database myself that's no problem.
> >> But I
> >> like to do less and less manual work ;-)
> > If that's your goal you should use engine-cleanup. When does it say when
> > failing?
> >
> > What version(s)?
> That was one off the goals. For the rest I just want to skip manual
> install in the future... I've been installing ovirt so many times the
> last year that I'm getting bored with it..... And that is where I use

If it's for non-production work, I think you can simply use the existing
files you created, and recreate them for newer versions if the old ones
break...

> answer files for when they are used. When I did IBM work in the past, I
> exclusively used answer files as they were very extensively documented
> and installations could run for hours. I even built scripts that
> generated the needed answer files to make installation easy and without
> errors.
> 
> For the cleanup bug
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1130137

Thanks for the report. Already solved in the code, should be fixed soon
in a new build. Or use the nightly builds...
-- 
Didi