Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 04/24/2009 08:25 PM, Sean Gilligan wrote: > >> That's really cool! I'd love to help with testing and documentation. I'm >> also interested in sharing Cobbler configurations publicly, but I'm not >> sure what that entails. >> > > There is a small app I wrote many years back to handle kickstarts, I am > sure that could be expanded into something that can be used to share > cobbler / puppet / kickstart configs. Something that should move up in > the priority list for sure. > > > I'm pretty sure the cobbler web interface allows you to share cobbler and kickstart configs - would you integrate with that? (I haven't looked at it for a while and it may be designed for use inside a firewall. I'm not familiar with puppet.) >> I noticed this wiki page >> (http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/CreateLocalMirror) was recently added. I >> believe using Cobbler is a valid alternative approach for this, right? >> > > not really - but there is a definite overlap in interest there. Cobbler > uses reposync under the hood - which is something that should absolutely > be on that page, since thats what it does. > > Cobbler on the other hand is a much wider and a much more focused tool > on provisioning, not so much about management and maintenance. > > I set up a local mirror of a Fedora 6 yum repo about 2 years ago and it was not simple (for me). About a year ago I did it for Fedora 8 with cobbler and it was very simple. My recollection was that Cobbler was a superset of setting up a local repo and, given the ease of use, a better solution. I hope to be setting up cobbler on CentOS 5.3 shortly, so that should refresh my memory. -- Sean -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-docs/attachments/20090424/8f4d50c8/attachment.html
