I generated two Fedora 16 x86_64 repositories using cobbler under Fedora 16.  One for the base (everything) and one for updates.  Did my reposync, all was well..   I tried to access these repositories from another machine that already had Fedora 16 installed for the purposes of yum install and yum update.  The repositories on the cobbler server were under /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/f16-x86_64-everything and /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/f16-x86_64-updates respectively with httpd and cobblerd, of course, running..  Turns out that when I tried to access the repositories with yum using the following code in the .repo file under /etc/yum.repos.d:

[Fedora16-x86_64]
name=Fedora16-x86_64
baseurl=http://192.168.3.200/cobbler/repo_mirror/f16-x86_64-everything
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
priority=1

[Fedora16-x86_64-updates]
name=Fedora16-x86_64-updates
baseurl=http://192.168.3.200/cobbler/repo_mirror/f16-x86_64-updates
enabled=1
priority=99
gpgcheck=0

yum could not find the repodata directory.  Cobbler generated something similar under the .origin directory using the name of the distribution, but no repodata directory.  I then did a createrepo on both the everything and update directores and the repodata directory was created.  yum was then happy.  So the question is, is there a way to access these repositories remotely with yum so that I don't have to do  a createrepo --update after I do a reposync in cron every day?

Many Thanks,

Mike..