Chris O'Regan wrote: >>> Interesting, I did not notice that on the wiki when I was hunting for >>> information this afternoon. >>> >> Thanks for the heads up! I'll put it up there. >> > > It was there, I just didn't notice it. :-S > > >>> Hrmm...my "ks_mirror" directory on my dev box >>> is pretty much empty (just a "config" directory). Am I missing >>> something? What should be in there? >>> >> That's the directory used by "cobbler import", if you were sourcing >> trees externally (without mirroring them) this data would not be in use. >> > > Ah...I experimented with "cobbler import" but since I am already using > mrepo I did not have the need for it. >
Cobbler has quite a few facilities to deal with yum repositories (all thanks to the bits behind yum utils), so there is not a need for mrepo anymore in most cases. > >>> Is this going to replicate my kickstarts and snippets, too, or do I have >>> to find a way of sharing them? If the latter, can those be put onto NFS >>> safely? What mechanism is used for replication? >>> >> Yes, it can help move over as little or as much as you want. See >> "cobbler replicate --help"in 1.2.4. If it can't do something you want, >> let me know, and we can see about adding it. >> > > Hrmm...I am still using v1.0.3...I'm way behind the times! Time to > upgrade... :-) > > >> Replication is achieved using Cobbler XMLRPC for basic data, and files >> > > This would be the read-only listener (tcp/25151), correct? > Correct. > >> are transferred using scp/rsync. Usage of ssh-agent before cobbler >> replicate is therefore recommended unless you are using authorized_keys. >> > > That's perfect; we use ssh for a number of tasks similar to this > already. Is it possible to specify a key to use? We like to lock down a > key to a specific command, host, etc. > ssh-add should take care of this. If you want to put that inside a shell script that wraps cobbler replicate that might work for you. > I still have some questions regarding cobbler's architecture, but this > gives me a better understanding. Thanks! > Feel free to start another thread and ask away as needed, that's what we're here for! > > Chris > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
