[cobbler] RFC: adding a cobbler debmirror.template?

Zack Perry zack.perry at sbcglobal.net
Fri Nov 30 07:56:53 UTC 2012


I have also made the following observations:
With Red Hat alike systems, once an official mirror is mirrored locally, it can be used for PXE booting, for package installation, or both.  The iso images provides more or less the same content as the official mirrors. So, an iso image is good for everything.But with Ubuntu, once an official repository is mirrored locally using e.g. debmirror, without fetching and unpacking the netboot tar ball, the result can be only used for installing packages.  Thus, the degree of automation is at least two steps behind what cobbler does for Red Hat systems.  IMHO this "gap" should be filled.Iso images for Ubuntu releases come many variants, some with alternate install, some don't. Thus, some can be used as basis for PXE network install, some can't.  The entire situation is a big mess IMHO. 
BTW, of the Debian/Ubuntu section of this file: https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/blob/master/config/import_rsync_whitelist, the sub-section about netboot is no longer applicable since Canonical has decided to provide the netboot images separately, outside of its offical repository hierarchy.
Regards,
-- Zack

Good idea.

I use the http://www.gtkdb.de/index_7_959.html

mirror ubuntu 12.04 and other deb mirror.

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