Yep, the setting is "yum_post_install_mirror". It turns your install server into a package/updates mirror, more or less.
On Sunday, February 12, 2012 at 7:24 AM, Gonzalo Servat wrote: > Hi George, > > You want to add the EPEL repos and then, in the CentOS profile, you'll see a > select box where you can select what repos to enable during installation. You > select all the repos you want in there (such as EPEL, Puppetlabs, etc). Those > repos will not persist after installation, though I believe there is a > variable that makes them stick around after install (yum_config_something). > > Good luck! > Gonzalo > > On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 7:39 PM, George Pitich <[email protected] > (mailto:[email protected])> wrote: > > i've been trying to kickstart centos 6 (pxe) with cobbler for some time but > > haven't been successful. namely if installation doesn't require any > > external repos (like epel or rpmforge) kickstart works great. however when > > installation needs some packages provided in external repos (epel) i don't > > know how to specify such a request. > > > > I thought that: > > > > cobbler repo add --name=EPEL-x86_64 > > --mirror=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64 > > --mirror-locally=N > > > > > > would fetch dependencies during kickstart (puppet) but that simply didn't > > happen (did cobbler reposync), installation process would complain that > > puppet package didn't exist. excerpt from the ks file: > > > > > > url --url http://server-ip/distros/CentOS/6.0/os/x86_64/ > > > > > > %packages > > @base > > @compat-libraries > > @core > > @puppet > > > > Os and core packages are served from a local yum repo that resides on the > > same box as cobbler: > > > > also: > > > > > > cobbler add --name=Centos_6.0_x86_64 > > --kernel=/distros/CentOS/6.0/os/x86_64/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz > > --initrd=/distros/CentOS/6.0/os/x86_64/images/pxeboot/initrd.img > > cobbler distro add --name=Centos_6.0_x86_64 > > --kernel=/distros/CentOS/6.0/os/x86_64/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz > > --initrd=/distros/CentOS/6.0/os/x86_64/images/pxeboot/initrd.img > > > > cobbler profile add --name=Centos_6.0_x86_64_Bit --distro=Centos_6.0_x86_64 > > --kickstart=/distros/kickstarts/centos60.ks > > > > > > I can browse the repo without any issues (repo was created from 2 centos 6 > > dvd iso files). At the moment i am mirroring epel through the cobbler > > locally. once mirror is done i'll create the profile but not sure if this > > is the only thing required? > > > > > > i'm quite new to cobbler and would appreciate any help on this matter. > > > > thx. > > _______________________________________________ > > cobbler mailing list > > [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) > > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > > > > -- > Gonzalo Servat > Systems Administrator, SIRCA Ltd > Level 9, 80 Clarence St, Sydney NSW 2000 > PO Box H58 Australia Square NSW 1215 > Tel: +61 2 9236 9161 > Fax: +61 2 9231 5988 > www.sirca.org.au (http://www.sirca.org.au/) > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > >
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