On Aug 26, 2008, at 11:05 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
Matthew Barr wrote:
It'd be nice to keep track of the groups file, and add that
automatically to the createrepo command backend.
I'm not sure what data is stored, etc.. but we need to keep track
of this already, when we deal w/ repos for cobbler.
Do you mean comps.xml? Are you manipulating comps.xml for dealing
with cobbler repos? E.g. are you adding/removing custom packages /
creating new package groups directly in comps.xml? Are there any
tools available for doing this or you have to hand-edit the xml file?
Yes, I mean comps.xml. We're not manipulating them currently, but I
have to deal w/ a strange circumstance where I get updates that come
in separately from the comps.xml. It's all due to how Oracle packages
their updates. I'm actually curious how many repos a typical Centos
DVD install produces, as I know that cobbler makes about 5 repos for
a DVD of RHEL.
I'm not doing any editing, so far, as we just use cfengine to deal
with package installation. The one MASSIVE set of dependencies is
handled by Oracle's oracle-validated rpm, which installs all Oracle DB
dependencies.
It would be very nice to be able to set up yum repos easily on
machines after build time...
Definitely. One idea we got from jimi_c in #rhel was to generate a
package for each repo that you can go rpm -ivh http://yourpulpserver/foo/bar-repo.rpm
that will lay down the yum repo file and perhaps install the repo's
gpg key for you if need be. Would that sort of functionality meet
your need here?
Hmm... Interesting. Not a bad thing. The next thought is you end up
w/ a repo of repo RPM's. We're just cheating w/ the wget lines from
cobbler, dumping the files into the right place. Pretty much the same
thing. I can see if working nicely. Also, a package can be
updated, which is nice, if you have to do a change of repo location,
or some setting.
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