<div dir="ltr">I basically have to copy them over from elsewhere anyway -- I could do this and then load them into Cobbler, but the fact that Cobbler makes me split them, for instance, into F18-i386 and F18-x86_64 instead of having one big F18 repo makes me prefer hosting my own repos along the lines of the way they're presented by the hosts who provide them on the internet and letting Cobbler reference them from my local copies. If there's a way to just tell Cobbler, "Hey, here's my local copy of F18 -- it contains both i386 and x86_64" and have that produce just one repo entry, then I'd do it that way. Otherwise, I end up with too many repos to track.<div>
<br></div><div>It's not a technical decision, it's a managing-my-resources one.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><u><br></u></div><div><b>Bret Wortman</b></div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 9:08 AM, James Cammarata <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jimi@sngx.net" target="_blank">jimi@sngx.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 7:56 AM, Bret Wortman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bret.wortman@damascusgrp.com" target="_blank">bret.wortman@damascusgrp.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">
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<div dir="ltr">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.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
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