Chris O'Regan wrote: > According to the man page, "mirror-locally" does the following: > > "When true, specifies that this yum repo is to be referenced directly > via kickstarts and not mirrored locally on the cobbler server. Only > http:// and ftp:// mirror urls are supported when using --mirror-locally=1." > > I'm confused. This above seems to describe the exact opposite of what > mirror-locally does in practice. That is, --mirror-locally=1 fetches all > of the packages from the url provided and stores them on the cobbler > server. I have had to set "--mirror-locally=0" to prevent cobbler from > downloading everything in the mirrors I set up with mrepo. >
Right, Bret McMillian already pointed out this as well. The manpage docs are already fixed on the development branch. --mirror-locally=1 mirrors the external source and makes it available via http:// --mirror-locally=0 references the external source directly and requires http:// or ftp:// --Michael > Having said that, looking at the source, it seems that the opposite is > true if we are mirroring from RHN. In this case, mirror-locally must be > set to "0" in order to fetch the packages. > > # rpm -q cobbler > cobbler-1.2.4-1.el5 > > > Chris > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
