sai kiran kanuri wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have created a repo from a dump of RHEL 5 Update 3.
>
> # cobbler repo report RHEL5-U3-x86_64-AS-FULL
> repo : RHEL5-U3-x86_64-AS-FULL
> arch : x86_64
> breed : yum
> comment : Complete RHEL 5.3 Repo
> created : Fri May 29 14:43:55 2009
> createrepo_flags : -c cache
> environment : {}
> keep updated : False
> mirror : ftp://10.193.64.131/RHEL5-U3-x86_64-AS-20090522/RPMS
> mirror locally : True
> modified : Thu Jun 4 15:31:19 2009
> owners : [u'admin']
> priority : 99
> rpm list :
> yum options : {}
>
>
> After creating the repo i have deleted the packages from original
> location and edited this repo properties to disable further updates.
> Now i have realized that i have missed adding in a few more packages.
> Is there a way i can update the existing repo using cobbler with
> addional packages without teh original set of packages?
>
If you have deleted the original packages from the remote repo I suspect
the (now invalid) remote repo metadata files will confuse reposync
heavily if you try
to sync that repo again.
> If i dump all the new packages into existing directory and re-create
> repo using createrepo, will it cause any trouble?
>
>
It shouldn't care, provided you have the repo set to disable updates.
You might possibly loose group information depending on what you do.
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Kiran
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