Thanks, James.  And thanks, Owen, for your reply, too.

I've opened github issue (#457).

-- David Lee


----- Original Message -----
> From: "James Cammarata" <[email protected]>
> To: "David Lee" <[email protected]>, "cobbler mailing list" 
> <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, 3 May, 2013 1:30:40 PM
> Subject: Re: [cobbler] cobbler repo add --mirror=url: multiple URLs?
> 
> 
> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 3:44 AM, David Lee < [email protected] >
> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> (cobbler 2.0.11; old; we could upgrade...) RedHat systems.
> 
> We have a local repo of additional RPMs, so we linked cobbler to this
> via:
> cobbler repo add --mirror=url ...
> 
> That works fine.
> 
> But it would also be useful if that URL specification could refer to
> a set of URLs. We maintain additional copies of this repo for
> resilience on multiple machines, and set up our clients' yum to use
> "mirrorlist". But is there a way for cobbler, when installing a
> client, also to have such a list available to it, rather than just
> the one "--mirror=url"? =
> 
> 
> It's funny that you mention this, as I was just talking about this in
> IRC last night. The short answer: no, cobbler doesn't support
> mirrors. The conversation started last night as a user mentioned
> that --mirror is easily confused with --mirror-locally, which I
> completely agree with especially since you're not setting the mirror
> URL - you're setting the baseurl.
> 
> 
> Another problem is that a lot of the repo stuff is still handled
> through "magic" variables like $yum_repo_stanza. In my opinion, all
> of that logic needs to be moved to templates and snippets, which
> would make fixing something like this much easier for end users.
> 
> 
> The downside (especially for you on 2.0.11) is that this fix would be
> in a future version, so you'd definitely have to upgrade.
> 
> 
> TL;DR version - open an issue on github and I'll get working on it in
> the near future.
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