Cobbler cobbler-0.8.0-1.el5 not importing 64bit RHEL 4.6 properly

[Phillis Brown <epicfailcompany@xxxxxxxxx>]

I am having a very strange problem importing a RHEL 4 update 6 x86_64 dvd iso into cobbler. The issue is that even though it is a 64bit RHEL OS it will import it as i386 and create a xen profile that also is i386.

 

Some details of the system:

 

 

Server is RHEL 5.1 system, 64bit Version

2.6.18-53.1.13.el5xen Kernel

Cobbler from EL5 EPEL repository online. cobbler-0.8.0-1.el5

 

 

 

I will mount the DVD iso onto /mnt, then issue the following command:

cobbler import --mirror=/mnt/ --name=RHEL4.6-64bit

 

 

then after a while the following output occurs, (concerns are in bold text)

 

 

isolinux/isolinux.bin
        9856 100%    1.17MB/s    0:00:00 (xfer#1901, to-check=7/1917)
isolinux/isolinux.cfg
         550 100%   67.14kB/s    0:00:00 (xfer#1902, to-check=6/1917)
isolinux/options.msg
         730 100%   79.21kB/s    0:00:00 (xfer#1903, to-check=5/1917)
isolinux/param.msg
         869 100%   94.29kB/s    0:00:00 (xfer#1904, to-check=4/1917)
isolinux/rescue.msg
         468 100%   50.78kB/s    0:00:00 (xfer#1905, to-check=3/1917)
isolinux/snake.msg
         549 100%    1.25kB/s    0:00:00 (xfer#1906, to-check=2/1917)
isolinux/splash.lss
        6056 100%   13.63kB/s    0:00:00 (xfer#1907, to-check=1/1917)
isolinux/vmlinuz
     1815772 100%    3.30MB/s    0:00:00 (xfer#1908, to-check=0/1917)

sent 2475739384 bytes  received 42044 bytes  9395754.94 bytes/sec
total size is 2475290117  speedup is 1.00
---------------- (adding distros)
- scanning /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/RHEL4.6-64bit for architecture info
- creating new distro: RHEL4.6-64bit-i386
- creating new profile: RHEL4.6-64bit-i386
- scanning /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/RHEL4.6-64bit for architecture info
- creating new distro: RHEL4.6-64bit-xen-i386
- creating new profile: RHEL4.6-64bit-xen-i386
---------------- (associating repos)
- traversing distro RHEL4.6-64bit-i386
- descent into /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/RHEL4.6-64bit
- processing: /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/RHEL4.6-64bit
- processing: /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/RHEL4.6-64bit/RedHat
- need to process repo/comps: /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/RHEL4.6-64bit/RedHat
- scanning: /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/RHEL4.6-64bit/RedHat (distro: RHEL4.6-64bit-i386)
- looking for /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/RHEL4.6-64bit/RedHat/base/comps*.xml
- possible source repo match
- segment: RHEL4.6-64bit/RedHat
- url: http://@@http_server@@/cobbler/ks_mirror/config/RHEL4.6-64bit-i386-0.repo
- createrepo -c cache --groupfile /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/RHEL4.6-64bit/RedHat/base/comps.xml /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/RHEL4.6-64bit/RedHat
1743/1743 - base/comps.rpm
Saving Primary metadata
Saving file lists metadata
Saving other metadata
- cp /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/RHEL4.6-64bit/RedHat/repodata/comps.xml /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/RHEL4.6-64bit/RedHat/base/comps.xml
- processing: /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/RHEL4.6-64bit/RedHat/RPMS
- processing: /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/RHEL4.6-64bit/RedHat/base
- processing: /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/RHEL4.6-64bit/images

 

 

 

is there any way I can force cobbler to acknowledge that it is indeed a 64 bit OS that is being imported? is this a "Bug" or a "feature"? I only ask this because I have a 32bit RHEL 4.6 import done as well as a RHEL 5.1 32 bit and 64 bit import done successfully. It just seems strange that cobbler would default a 4u6 import as 32 bit without checking it or failing to check it, thats all.

 

 

-- thanks!

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