Chris O'Regan wrote:
>> Interesting, I did not notice that on the wiki when I was
hunting for
>> information this afternoon.
>>
> Thanks for the heads up! I'll put it up there.
>
It was there, I just didn't notice it. :-S
>> Hrmm...my "ks_mirror" directory on my dev box
>> is pretty much empty (just a "config" directory). Am I missing
>> something? What should be in there?
>>
> That's the directory used by "cobbler import", if you were sourcing
> trees externally (without mirroring them) this data would not be in use.
>
Ah...I experimented with "cobbler import" but since I am already using
mrepo I did not have the need for it.
Cobbler has quite a few facilities to deal with yum repositories (all
thanks to the bits behind yum utils), so there is not a need for mrepo
anymore in most cases.
>> Is this going to replicate my kickstarts and snippets, too, or do I have
>> to find a way of sharing them? If the latter, can those be put onto NFS
>> safely? What mechanism is used for replication?
>>
> Yes, it can help move over as little or as much as you want. See
> "cobbler replicate --help"in 1.2.4. If it can't do something you want,
> let me know, and we can see about adding it.
>
Hrmm...I am still using v1.0.3...I'm way behind the times! Time to
upgrade... :-)
> Replication is achieved using Cobbler XMLRPC for basic data, and files
>
This would be the read-only listener (tcp/25151), correct?
Correct.
> are transferred using scp/rsync. Usage of ssh-agent before cobbler
> replicate is therefore recommended unless you are using authorized_keys.
>
That's perfect; we use ssh for a number of tasks similar to this
already. Is it possible to specify a key to use? We like to lock down a
key to a specific command, host, etc.
ssh-add should take care of this. If you want to put that inside a shell
script that wraps cobbler replicate that might work for you.
I still have some questions regarding cobbler's architecture, but
this
gives me a better understanding. Thanks!
Feel free to start another thread and ask away as needed, that's what
we're here for!
Chris
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