Before I abandon using cobbler entirely to manage Ubuntu installs, I'd LOVE to hear from anyone out there who is using Cobbler to manage/mirror Ubuntu (or debian) repos. I'm finding it devilishly hard to get the repos configured and sync'd in a way that I can properly use them for my local machines to pull updates. If anyone has had any success and wants to share some insights, please let me know.
thanks
On 5/19/14, 11:34 AM, Larry J Prikockis wrote:
Before I abandon using cobbler entirely to manage Ubuntu installs, I'd LOVE to hear from anyone out there who is using Cobbler to manage/mirror Ubuntu (or debian) repos. I'm finding it devilishly hard to get the repos configured and sync'd in a way that I can properly use them for my local machines to pull updates. If anyone has had any success and wants to share some insights, please let me know.
thanks
Hi,
We mirror Ubuntu alternatively and do not try to engage cobbler for this. Cobbler is the way we install Ubuntu LTS 12.04 and 14.04 for both our desktop and server clients. Though note that with 14.04 it seems that they don't ship PXE files for the desktop version but we just use the server PXE files.
If you mirror what you need you can use the following preseed values to set the installation source (you could even just use a public repository).
# Setup the installation source d-i mirror/protocol string http d-i mirror/country string manual d-i mirror/http/hostname string myubuntu.server.com d-i mirror/http/directory string /ubuntu d-i mirror/http/proxy string
I also like to kill from the /var/lib/cobbler/scripts/preseed_late_default file $SNIPPET('late_apt_repo_config') as this adds the repo from the server.
I just imported from the Ubuntu 14.04 server disk to create the distro and profile (added a second profile for desktop that just uses the server distro to boot up and then make sure you have the right tasksel[1] setup in its own preseed).
[1] - tasksel tasksel/first multiselect ubuntu-desktop
Thanks, derek
thanks-- yeah- that seems to be the direction I'm heading as well. I'm familiar with using apt-mirror to mirror/maintain ubuntu repositories. I had hoped to just have everything neatly configured from within Cobbler, but that doesn't seem quite possible (yet?).
At least it'll be nice to manage the preseed files and pxe-boot stuff via Cobbler. And since we also use Centos for servers, Cobbler does a nice job of handling all aspects of managing that distro.
On 05/20/2014 11:25 AM, Derek Yarnell wrote:
On 5/19/14, 11:34 AM, Larry J Prikockis wrote:
Before I abandon using cobbler entirely to manage Ubuntu installs, I'd LOVE to hear from anyone out there who is using Cobbler to manage/mirror Ubuntu (or debian) repos. I'm finding it devilishly hard to get the repos configured and sync'd in a way that I can properly use them for my local machines to pull updates. If anyone has had any success and wants to share some insights, please let me know.
thanks
Hi,
We mirror Ubuntu alternatively and do not try to engage cobbler for this. Cobbler is the way we install Ubuntu LTS 12.04 and 14.04 for both our desktop and server clients. Though note that with 14.04 it seems that they don't ship PXE files for the desktop version but we just use the server PXE files.
If you mirror what you need you can use the following preseed values to set the installation source (you could even just use a public repository).
# Setup the installation source d-i mirror/protocol string http d-i mirror/country string manual d-i mirror/http/hostname string myubuntu.server.com d-i mirror/http/directory string /ubuntu d-i mirror/http/proxy string
I also like to kill from the /var/lib/cobbler/scripts/preseed_late_default file $SNIPPET('late_apt_repo_config') as this adds the repo from the server.
I just imported from the Ubuntu 14.04 server disk to create the distro and profile (added a second profile for desktop that just uses the server distro to boot up and then make sure you have the right tasksel[1] setup in its own preseed).
[1] - tasksel tasksel/first multiselect ubuntu-desktop
Thanks, derek
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