[cobbler] Creating custom/local repos

Dan White d_e_white at icloud.com
Tue Aug 19 15:47:51 UTC 2014


>From my experience, you make the cobbler repo first, then you turn on the mirroring and run reposync, then YOU add the reference to /etc/yum.repos.d/

My cobbler server mirrors several repos that it does not directly use.

This, IMHO, is a Good Thing.

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On Aug 19, 2014, at 11:06 AM, Michael Tiernan <mtiernan at mit.edu> wrote:

> On 8/12/14 3:02 PM, alastair at alastair-munro.com wrote:
>        > Added a page on the wiki on how to create your own custom repos for
>        > putting rpms that don't fit anywhere else:
>
> This leads me to a question that I've been working on.
>
> I just need to know if I've been working under an incorrect assumption.
>
> I was under the impression that *somehow*, if I add a repo (and mirror
> it) under cobbler (e.g. EPEL) that cobbler would/could create a repo
> entry, in my case, in /etc/yum.repos.d/ for EPEL that points to my
> mirror and not to the upstream master.
>
> Did I mis understand something?
>
> Right now I'm assuming that I've not gotten that part of the
> configuration done correctly and will eventually "get it right" along
> with all the other things I'm doing.
>
> Thanks for everyone's time.
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