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. _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
