[cobbler] Importing F18 using Cobbler 2.2.3 and locally mirrored F18 repos

James Cammarata jimi at sngx.net
Mon Mar 11 13:08:41 UTC 2013


On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 7:56 AM, Bret Wortman
<bret.wortman at damascusgrp.com>wrote:

> Okay, but my whole problem is that the systems on this network don't have
> internet connectivity, so I have to replicate the F18 mirror locally. Will
> this work using a local path instead of rsync just as well? I'll pull the
> beta 2.4.0 and try that, though, it'll just take a little time to move it
> across.
>
>
Sorry missed that in earlier emails, but yes import will work with a local
path instead if you're using 2.4.0-beta3. Using --available-as with the
newer version ensures that it only copies over files essential for creating
the distro - typically less than 100MB.

My question is (and maybe I missed this too), why are you using
--available-as? Why not just have cobbler host the files instead of copying
them somewhere else and having cobbler reference them? The use of
--available-as is recommended only when you do not want to host the files
yourself (installing from a public mirror as I showed previously) or for
when you've already got all of the files somewhere else and don't want to
duplicate them.
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