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

Timo Aaltonen tjaalton at ubuntu.com
Fri Nov 30 16:24:11 UTC 2012


30.11.2012 09:56, Zack Perry kirjoitti:
> 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. 

Just use the mini-iso's (current signature file doesn't work with them
though). The current ubuntu cobbler package has a handy tool for pulling
the iso and importing a (ubuntu) distro/profile using it, wonder if it
would be useful to upstream as well.. after making it at least a bit
less distro-specific.

> 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 the sub-section about netboot is no longer applicable since Canonical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.

Care to explain a bit more? AFAICT the netboot images are exactly where
they used to be.

t



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