On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Michael DeHaan <[email protected]> wrote:

>  On 09/23/2009 11:22 AM, Jeremy Rosengren wrote:
>
> I was able to solve my earlier cobbler 2.0 issues - prior to upgrading, I
> had symbolically linked /var/www/cobbler to another partition after moving
> the new /var/www/cobbler to that partition and then copying my ks_mirrors
> and repo_mirrors directories over, things seem to be working on the web
> side.
>
> I'm seeing a new issue when trying to do a "cobbler reposync".  The
> reposync process seems to be working, but at the end of the mirroring it
> fails with the following error.  Any suggestions for how I fix this on EL5,
> where createrepo > 0.9.7 doesn't exist?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- jeremy
>
>
> I presume you are trying to mirror a recent Fedora.
>
> Well, you *can* install a newer version of yum-utils on RHEL 5... that is
> possible.
>
> I'm not entirely sure how to mirror this without the steps involved, as I
> didn't contribute the feature, though I agree falling back to something
> simpler in that case might be desirable.   Someone would need to
> investigate.    There have been a lot of yum changes recently and they are a
> bit hard to keep up with along with everything else, so help would be
> welcome here.
>
> (Given, we might just say upgrade your yum.. as for RHEL management apps
> that are "supported" don't use this feature... though if we could get it to
> work from older OS's that would be nice and I'd like to do this).
>
> --Michael
>

Okay, that sounds reasonable.  Since I have the ability to upgrade yum-utils
on this EL5 box, I may just do that as the quick fix and take a deeper look
at making the feature work on EL5 when I have a free moment or two.

Thanks,

-- jeremy
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