On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 05:09:19PM -0500, Alan Crosswell wrote:
> Does cobbler support metalink URLs for repos like those found in
> /etc/yum.repos.d?  Something like (with the variables expanded for the
> specific release and arch):
> 
> https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-14&arch=i386
> 
> Last time I tried this, I found I had to provide a specific mirror.

True, doesnt work.
Apparently to check availability of the mirror 'cobbler reposync' tries
to fetch 'repodata/repomd.xml'.  For a url you have in mind like

  https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-6&arch=$basearch

the possible values of $basearch you want to use would have to be guessed
by reposync.. maybe the check could be disabled.  When repos are not to
be mirrored locally fetching 'repodata/repomd.xml' serves no further
purpose than 'quick check' as i see it.  Might be deeper magic there thou.


Christian
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