Msquared wrote:
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 11:46:23AM -0500, Michael DeHaan wrote:
A common use case is keeping a local mirror of FC-6 updates.
What happens if I have a local mirror of the Fedora 6 DVD plus a local
mirror of the corresponding FC6 updates? Can I add both to a profile, and
kickstart will do the Right Thing when building the new machine?
Regards, Msquared...
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What we have here is a failure to communicate :)
Two kinds of mirrors, basically. Different concepts, used for different
things.
"cobbler import" puts files into /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror -- this is a
kickstart tree mirror. These don't need to be updated, and are essential
for doing full automated installations. However since Anaconda /does/
allow network installs, you don't /have/ to mirror them on your cobbler
server if you already have a good kickstart tree available over http on
your network. In this case, you'd just use "cobbler distro add", and
save yourself the import steps. However, most home users won't have an
fast kickstart tree available to them, and this is why cobbler import
helps you make one.
cobbler repo add ... puts files into /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror --
these are yum repositories for things like extras & updates. These
update quite frequently and are entirely optional for cobbler -- if you
don't use them, it will use external repos as configured by default in yum.
If you add the later (the yum repos) you'll either have to edit them
into the "repos" field of an existing profile in
/var/lib/cobbler/profiles, or you can add create new profiles with
"cobbler profile add" using the "--repo" argument. Note that if you do
this, and you're using the default cobbler kickstart files, you'll still
need to pass in an appropriate value for the --ksmeta option "tree".
This is why I'd say it's much easier to just edit
/var/lib/cobbler/profiles with the profiles that cobbler imports for you.
Add yes, it will do the right thing.
To verify that it does the right thing, run a "cobbler sync", and check
out the kickstart files as seen at
/var/www/cobbler/kickstarts/profilename/ks.cfg -- you should see a good
parameter passed in for "url" towards the top, plus references to your
repo in the middle (search for "repo") and also in post, where it
installs the repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d
--Michael
