On Fri, 6 Mar 2009, Chris O'Regan wrote:
I have done so with CentOS in the past. The main issue is that Cobbler
works best when you mirror a version-architecture tree (as in 5.2/i386
5.2/x86_64 4.7/etc.) Trying to mirror ALL of XYZ Linux in one set does
not work well. I found that out the hard way.. Personally I just set
it up to mirror a tree for CentOS and had a cron job that updated the
updates.
I have been investigating this most of the morning and I am now leaning
toward mirroring the distribution externally.
A few more questions:
Do I need to recreate the "repodata" directories?
If you mirror them you do not have to recreate them unless you add/change
the rpms in the ../repodata directory.
Are the packages in the "contrib" directory ever updated? Or more to the
point, is there any content other than the "updates" directory that
isn't static from one release to the next?
After a tree has been released the updates and the contrib directory
contents can change. The other directories should be static.
Do you mirror the "5x" tree or a specific version?
Depends on what you want to use. The 5x tree points to the current
version tree. So it points to 52 today but in a week or so it will point
to the 53 tree.
If you want to "stay" on 5.2 then you mirror that tree.
Thanks,
Chris
-Connie Sieh
