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In our deployment of obs, we have a standard disk image for our obs workers and we boot up a variable number of vmware images pointing at this single disk image.

This doesnt work well because the worker script uses the hostname as a unique identifier, and all of our images have the same hostname. Setting hostname from DHCP is not an option given our current network infrastructure.

A small modification to the init script allows us to use this setup. I changed our obsworker init script to the following and it works for us:

echo "screen -t $title ./bs_worker $obsopt $port --root $ROOT/root_$I" \
                             "--statedir $workerdir/$I --id $HOSTNAME-$(/sbin/ifconfig | grep inet | grep -v 127 | cut -d: -f2 | awk '{print $1}' | head -n1)/$I --reposerver http://$OBS_REPO_SERVER" \
                             "--srcserver http://$OBS_SRC_SERVER" \
                            >> $screenrc

This has the effect of appending the worker IP address after the hostname, making the 'id' unique. It would be nice if there were a better or more generic way to do this. Perhaps an /etc/sysconfig/ value to enable this workaround.


Reproducible: Always

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