Marc Mondragon wrote:
In the wiki it mentions:
This is rather experimental, but if you have a provisioning need for
fast local installs without hitting an outside server repeatedly (say
you have a slow pipe), you can try:
cobbler repo-add --name=insertnamehere --mirror=http://rhn-channel-name
That's just the channel-name, no server. This only works on RHEL5+ and
you'll need entitlements for the channel in question.
Is this functional at this time? I’ve been trying and this is what I get:
Ø cobbler repo add --name=RHEL5-i386-Server-Base
--mirror=http://rhel-i386-server-5
It should work on RHEL5. However it does look like I've got some bad
typos in the manpage. I'll correct this.
Try the following:
Ø cobbler repo add --mirror=rhn://rhel-i386-server-5
--name=rhel-i386-server-5
Ø cobbler reposync
Ø - creating:
/var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/.origin/RHEL5-i386-Server-Base.repo
Ø - /usr/bin/reposync
--config=/var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/.origin/RHEL5-i386-Server-Base.repo
--repoid=RHEL5-i386-Server-Base
--download_path=/var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror
Ø Traceback (most recent call last):
Ø File "/usr/bin/reposync", line 196, in ?
Ø main()
Ø File "/usr/bin/reposync", line 140, in main
Ø my.doRepoSetup()
Ø File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 299,
in doRepoSetup
Ø repo.setup(self.conf.cache)
Ø File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 505, in
setup
Ø raise Errors.RepoError, ('Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for
repository: %s' % self)
Ø yum.Errors.RepoError: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for
repository: RHEL5-i386-Server-Base
Ø cobbler reposync failed
On another topic, how is the default kickstart file chosen? As shipped
the file /etc/cobbler/default.ks is empty and in listed as the default
in /var/lib/cobbler/settings. However, when I run “cobbler report” the
default kickstart is listed as /etc/cobbler/kickstart_fc6.ks.
It's picked based on the flavor of the OS and the major/minor version.
Currently there are only two kickstarts -- the "FC 5" one works for
things FC 5 and before, and the FC6 one works for things FC6 and after
-- really the only difference is whether Anaconda supports using yum
repositories at install time, which is a new feature added for FC6. This
detection process isn't perfect, so if you would like to make changes,
you can do that...
cobbler profile edit --name=name-of-profile
--kickstart=/path/to/new/kickstart
Cobbler doesn't require that you use the kickstarts that came with
Cobbler, though if you look in those kickstarts you can see some
templated fields (that start with dollar signs) that it will fill in
automatically. Kickstarts that you write will work better if they
contain similar fields.
Thanks,
Marc Mondragon
Fox River Financial Resources/Ritchie Capital Investments, Ltd.
2100 Enterprise Avenue
Geneva, IL 60134
marcmo@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:marcmo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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