Forgot to mention this,

RHEL 6.8, it doesn't matter if you run createrepo prior to importing it to
cobbler.

On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 4:40 PM, Kapilraj Koroth <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I finally figured out the issue. There was no problem after all. There was
> a step that I did not mention prior to importing the distribution
>
> Installed cobbler server on RHEL 6.8
> Installed the latest version of cobbler from EPEL 2.6.11
> Imported RHEL 7.0 and 7.2 distributions from the binary DVD.
>    Loop mount the DVD.iso
>    rsync it to a directory served under DocumentRoot of the apache
>    Ran a "createrepo" against that directory ( I do this so that I can use
> this as a repository for other servers in the network )
>    Then did a cobbler import
> Made a kickstart file as follows, slight changes from RHEL6
>
> That createrepo was the problem ! I did an import before that and it
> worked with all kind of kickstart files...
>
> Sorry, bad me ..
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 4:53 PM, bishop <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Mine seems to work. It's an older cobbler but it's maybe a valid test.
>> Watch the casing on 'Core'.
>>
>>  - ..
>>
>> # emacs /etc/cobbler/
>> # cobbler profile add \
>>   --parent centos7-x86_64 \
>>   --kickstart /etc/cobbler/centos7-koroth.ks \
>>   --name centos7-koroth-x86_64
>> exception on server: 'Invalid kickstart template file location
>> /etc/cobbler/centos7-koroth.ks, it is not inside
>> /var/lib/cobbler/kickstarts/'
>> # mv \
>>   /etc/cobbler/centos7-koroth.ks \
>>   /var/lib/cobbler/kickstarts/ # /sigh
>> # cobbler profile add \
>>   --parent centos7-x86_64 \
>>   --kickstart /var/lib/cobbler/kickstarts/centos7-koroth.ks \
>>   --name centos7-koroth-x86_64  # fascism
>>
>> # diff -u \
>>    <(cobbler profile getks --name centos7-x86_64) \
>>    <(cobbler profile getks --name centos7-koroth-x86_64)
>> --- /dev/fd/63  2016-09-27 17:43:51.545047962 -0400
>> +++ /dev/fd/62  2016-09-27 17:43:51.545047962 -0400
>> @@ -54,8 +54,8 @@
>>  logvol /home   --fstype ext4   --name=home     --vgname=vg01   --size
>> 32       --grow  --maxsize 5120
>>  logvol /mnt/misc --fstype ext4 --name=mntmisc  --vgname=vg01   --size
>> 32       --grow
>>
>> -#centos7-x86_64
>> -%packages --ignoremissing
>> +#centos7-koroth-x86_64
>> +%packages
>>  -aic94xx-firmware
>>  -alsa-firmware
>>  -bfa-firmware
>> @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
>>  -ql23xx-firmware
>>  linux-firmware
>>  # default from base
>> -@base
>> +@Core
>>  -abrt-addon-ccpp
>>  -abrt-addon-python
>>  -abrt-cli
>>
>>
>> Kapilraj Koroth wrote:
>> > I can even choose not to use cobbler and re-produce this problem.
>> >
>> > NoSuchGroup : core
>> >
>> >
>> > _*Does this work for anyone ??*_
>> > _*
>>
>>
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>
>
>
> --
> Regards, KapilRaj
>



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