On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 12:47 +0200, Christian Horn wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:34:02AM +0100, Matt Wallace wrote:
> > 
> > I guess I was really asking if you could get cobbler to perform the
> > "create repo" step - do you know if this is possible?
> 
> I dont think so.
> 
> I.e. when making rhel/centos-media available as repo to cobbler
> the createrepo is not required, its only used to make a yum-repo
> out of a pure directory with one or more rpms.
> 
> So if you really want it included write a small wrapper which
> first does createrepo and then does 'cobbler repo add'.
> Havin 'cobbler repo add' doing that each time on its own would
> be huge waste of resources here in some cases: we have directories
> with all rhel5-x86_64 updates and deliver these to cobbler-slaves
> via rsync. All of these cobbler-slaves again doing the createrepo
> with this big number of packages would be wasting resources..

Fair enough, makes sense.

Thanks for all the help.

M.

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