Chris O'Regan wrote: > I am about to mirror Scientific Linux and I would appreciate any > recommendations you may have. I did find some documentation on the SL > web site regarding mirroring but it seems a bit out-of-date. I think it > refers to SL3x. > > Basically, I want to mirror both i386 and x86_64 branches of SL53. One > problem is that each architecture branch contains both the installation > image and the updates. I think I can get around this by importing with > rsync and carefully crafting a bunch of excludes to hide the content > that will change. Is there anything else that I should exclude? > > > More general questions... > > If memory serves me, cobbler import will use the value of --name as a > prefix when naming distributions/profiles. So, if I import SL5.3 and > specify the name as "sl" then I would expect something like this: > sl-sl5.3-x86_64. Can I use the same prefix (or more accurately, --name) > to import other versions of Scientific Linux? For example, if I also > import SL4.7 I would like it to be named sl-sl4.7-x86_64. > > I was considering importing the "5x" branch which I imagine is just a > symlink to the current version of Scientific Linux with the reason being > that when the next version of 5x is released, I don't need to migrate > all my systems to the new version; I would simply freshen the distro and > run cobbler sync which should copy the new kernel and initrd to tftp. > But import seems to be a one-time deal. Would it be better to mirror > outside of cobbler? > >
If you don't like the names you get from an import, you can just use "cobbler distro rename" and "cobbler profile rename" later to fix them up. If you want to update the kernel/initrd, don't reimport, just "cobbler distro edit --name=foo --kernel=/srv/mynewvmlinuz --initrd=/srv/mynewinitrd.img" > Thanks, > > Chris > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
