> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Christian Horn > Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 8:59 AM > To: cobbler mailing list > Subject: Re: cobbler with no local mirroring? > > On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 11:28:51AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > > > > Basically, we've got a mirror server already. It has plenty of resources, > > and it's set up to automatically sync and so on. I'd therefore like to avoid > > duplicating effort (and wasting disk space) in cobbler, and point entirely > > at that remote mirror. The "Non-Import (Manual) Workflow" with > > --mirror-locally=N seems to get us part way there, but we still need to do > > things like "distro add" pointing to local kernel/initrd files > > We also mirror ourself and let cobbler just work on that. > For it to manage pxefiles etc. it has to know about vmlinuz/initrd of the > distros thou, manage profiles. > I am not sure what funktionality you would like to get from cobbler without > having pxe/dhcp-management - and for this cobbler needs to know about the > distro/profile objects. > > Christian
Sorry to resurrect a thread from a while ago, but I'm dealing with the same issue here. We've got a nice fat internal mirror with plenty of resources. We added a repo using --available-as (well, actually using cobbler-web with Advanced -> "Mirror locally" disabled and the relevant repo data seems to come in, however on the distro side it still needs a Kernel and Initrd local file path to copy over to /tftpboot/images/DISTRO/vmlinuz/initrd . Placing the files there manually of course results in them being wiped the next time I do a cobbler sync. Even if we have to specify the location for each distro manually still, I'm fine with that... but I'd like to be able to specify a URL here (in lieu of an Absolute path) and have cobbler simply pull that down as it's doing its sync -- e.g., http://rhel.mirrors.example.net/5.90Server/i386/os/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz Any pointers to the python code I'd need to hack to make this happen? Regards, -jc _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
