Michael DeHaan wrote: > Chris O'Regan wrote: >> Looking at the source of action_reposync.py, it seems relatively easy >> to replace "reposync" with "rhnget" (from mrepo) in the section that >> mirrors from RHN. Having said that, I wonder if others would find >> this a useful feature. >> >> If so, I would be willing to write a patch however I will need some >> guidance as to how to implement this. First, we need a way of telling >> cobbler to use rhnget instead of reposync. Second, rhnget needs the >> path to the systemid file for this particular repo. Since there are >> already restrictions on the name of the repo, this path can possibly >> be hard-coded. Third, it might be desirable to pass options to >> rhnget, such as "--download-all". Should this be global or per repo >> or both? Fourth and finally, rhnget provides a "--filter" which could >> provide the functionality of "rpm-list" (though it expects a regex). >> >> Is there any interest? >> >> >> Chris >> _______________________________________________ >> cobbler mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > I can't accept mrepo support (we can't endorse usage of mrepo for what > should be obvious reasons), but I would consider a patch to allow an > arbitrary mirroring engine in addition to yumdownloader, reposync, and > yum's reposync. > > You should wait until JP's patches are tested and applied for apt > support though, as they have a lot of changes in them that would make > something like that easier. > > --Michael > > >
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