Hello Folks,
I am still new to cobbler but finding it to be very powerful and am
beginning to get a feel for things. However I have a couple of problems
WRT cobbler not being able to import multiple iso images for a single
distro. My apologies if this has already been dealt with in the past.
So what is he on about? Here at HP, I have a setup using "mrepo" which
manages the mounting of the various RHEL, SLES and Debian versions that
we have in-house to provide deployment/install trees for our lab.
For simplicity and compatibility reasons, I am not currently going to
transfer all of these mounted iso to cobbler's management but use
cobbler's import and --available-as options instead. For info, I am
running cobbler 1.6.4 on Rhel5.3 x86_64.
This works like a treat for Rhel5 where mrepo mounts a single DVD iso.
However, this fails apart when it comes to older versions of Rhel4 where
I only have access to CD iso images. So my mrepo tree looks like the
following:
# ll /var/www/mrepo/*rhel4-U4-es-i386*/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 22 10:41 base
*drwxrwsr-x 6 root root 18432 Aug 3 2006 disc1
drwxrwsr-x 3 root root 2048 Aug 3 2006 disc2
drwxrwsr-x 3 root root 2048 Aug 3 2006 disc3
drwxrwsr-x 3 root root 2048 Aug 3 2006 disc4
drwxrwsr-x 3 root root 2048 Aug 3 2006 disc5*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 50 Feb 28 2007 HEADER.shtml ->
../../../../usr/share/mrepo/html/HEADER.repo.shtml
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 26 2007 iso
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 50 Feb 28 2007 README.shtml ->
../../../../usr/share/mrepo/html/README.repo.shtml
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 94208 May 12 16:30 RPMS.os
And cobbler hickups here:
# cobbler import --path=/var/www/mrepo/rhel4-U4-es-i386/ --name=rhel4.4-es \
--arch=i386 --available-as=http://my.host.com/mrepo/rhel4-U4-es-i386/
---------------- (adding distros)
- found content (breed=redhat) at
/var/www/mrepo/rhel4-U4-es-i386/disc1/images/pxeboot
- architectures found at
/var/www/mrepo/rhel4-U4-es-i386/disc1/RedHat/RPMS: []
Given arch (i386) not found on imported tree
/var/www/mrepo/rhel4-U4-es-i386/disc1/RedHat/RPMS
So my guess for the first response that I will get back from the list is
that cobbler only supports importing from a single mounted DVD iso
image, true? The code in action_import.py seems to support this. Will
cobbler ever support importing from multiple iso for a given distro?
Should I begin taking a shot at this?
I hacked the action_import.py code a little to uncomment the additional
traces but was surprised that it did not take the passed --arch=i386
option as gospel. This started me on the journey of why isn't the arch
being used or correctly identified.
I saw that the .discinfo file is used to extract a timestamp, so I was
wondering why couldn't that also be used to extract the arch info for
an iso. On Rhel5 and Fedora 6+ you also have the .treeinfo file which
could be parsed by ConfigParser. The tree.py module from the snake
project could of use here and does that already.
https://fedorahosted.org/snake/browser/snake/tree.py
Could some of the kind souls on the list give me a pointer or two on
where to begin my journey.
Many thanks in advance,
Gareth
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