Yeah that was my thinking too. I've added it to my todo list, unless someone
else wants to take it.
On Oct 14, 2011 9:53 AM, "Chris Ess" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 10/14/2011 8:10 AM, James Cammarata wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 5:43 AM, Kashif Mohammad
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> It may be very basic question. Probably I am getting some thing wrong. I
> have installed cobbler-2.2.1-1 on a fedora machine. Cobbler check is giving
> almost no error. But when I try to import
> >>
> >> cobbler import --path=rsync://
> rsync.mirrorservice.org/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/14/Fedora/x86_64/os/--name=F14
> >> task started: 2011-10-14_114038_import
> >> task started (id=Media import, time=Fri Oct 14 11:40:38 2011)
> >> scanning rsync://
> rsync.mirrorservice.org/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/14/Fedora/x86_64/os/for
>  a redhat-based distro signature
> >> *** TASK COMPLETE ***
> >>
> >> It finishes in seconds and nothing is actually syncd.
> >
> > That won't work with the import modules now, I'm not sure if it ever
> > worked (even though the documentation says --path can be an rsync
> > location). Download the ISO or rsync the files locally, and then point
> > --path at that directory.
>
> I can verify that this worked (cobbler import --path=rsync://...) as of
> February 2010.  I'm sure I've done it since then but that's the last
> time I have an import documented.
>
> >From what I can tell, it looks like the old importer would rsync from
> the given path to the local system and then determine the distribution's
> breed.  This code is also present in version 2.2.1's
> ImportRedhatManager's run() method but I don't think it ever gets that
> far.  check_for_signature() expects a local path and it's called in
> BootAPI's import_tree() method before run() is.
>
> I think this functionality can be restored if import_tree() handles
> downloading trees from remote sources before calling
> check_for_signature() in the import modules.
>
> --CAE
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