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