On 07/01/2011 08:00 AM, [email protected] wrote:
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> Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:18:18 +0100
> From: David Lee<[email protected]>
> Subject: 'cobbler get-loaders' through http proxy?
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> (I'm new to cobbler, and using v 2.0.11)
>
> 'cobbler check' is advising:
>
> 1 : some network boot-loaders are missing from /var/lib/cobbler/loaders,
> you may run 'cobbler get-loaders' to download them, or, if you only want
> to handle x86/x86_64 netbooting, you may ensure that you have installed
> a *recent* version of the syslinux package installed and can ignore this
> message entirely.
>
> It so happens that we are, at present, entirely 'x86_64', using RHEL 5.6
> and above, and all seems well.  So in my case I probably don't need to
> go any further at present.  (Correct?)
>
> But when, for the fun of it, I tried 'cobbler get-loaders' it appeared
> to hang.  I strongly suspect that this is because we need http proxying
> to reach off-site, and it isn't clear whether 'cobbler get-loaders'
> uses, or can use, http proxying (either by command argument or
> environment variable).  Have I missed something in the documentation?

May I suggest reviewing:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666435

Marcelo proposed patches to fix this, but within Satellite. The 
Satellite team though is not supporting 'get-loaders' with our 
integration of cobbler.

Marcelo - care to propose the same fix upstream to cobbler.

Cliff

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