Re: [cobbler] Creating custom/local repos
I understand yum repo generation the same as Andre. The only thing is the $yum_repo_stanza will leave anything in the /etc/yum.repos.d there, so I had a block in our ks to remove anything in there, apart from cobbler-config.repo. In our setup systems don't have internet access so we can't use repos on the internet. Thus we use the cobbler server as the yum repo. Interesting to note that cobbler puts all the repo configs in the one file; cobbler-config.repo. Have you selected all the required repos in the profile? If you click on View Kickstart you should see the included repos at the top of the kickstart. Documentation is minimal with cobber, so you just have to try and work out what it does. Similar to alot of open source; you need to play around with it and work out how it works. Alastair On 2014-08-19 16:07, André Gemünd wrote: Michael, I assume you mean on hosts which you installed with Cobbler? In that case, it depends. There is an entry called "Repos" on the objects, I conveniently set them on the profiles, in which you add references to the mirrored repos. If you then also have a $yum_config_stanza in your kickstarts %post section, cobbler will create a cobbler-config.repo in the hosts /etc/yum.repos.d/ folder. Note that this is not necessarily enough for RHEL/SL/CentOS, as they have rpms which contain the upstream repos. So I usually exclude the yum-config packages from installation and check for other repo files in my post scripts. btw, if you also add a $yum_repo_stanza in the head of your kickstart, you can directly use the additional repos during installation, which is e.g. handy for installing with the updates repo or EPEL enabled. Cheers Andre - Ursprüngliche Mail - On 8/12/14 3:02 PM, alast...@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. ___ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler ___ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
Re: [cobbler] Creating custom/local repos
Michael, I assume you mean on hosts which you installed with Cobbler? In that case, it depends. There is an entry called "Repos" on the objects, I conveniently set them on the profiles, in which you add references to the mirrored repos. If you then also have a $yum_config_stanza in your kickstarts %post section, cobbler will create a cobbler-config.repo in the hosts /etc/yum.repos.d/ folder. Note that this is not necessarily enough for RHEL/SL/CentOS, as they have rpms which contain the upstream repos. So I usually exclude the yum-config packages from installation and check for other repo files in my post scripts. btw, if you also add a $yum_repo_stanza in the head of your kickstart, you can directly use the additional repos during installation, which is e.g. handy for installing with the updates repo or EPEL enabled. Cheers Andre - Ursprüngliche Mail - > On 8/12/14 3:02 PM, alast...@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. > ___ > cobbler mailing list > cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org > https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > -- André Gemünd Fraunhofer-Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing andre.gemu...@scai.fraunhofer.de Tel: +49 2241 14-2193 /C=DE/O=Fraunhofer/OU=SCAI/OU=People/CN=Andre Gemuend ___ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
Re: [cobbler] Creating custom/local repos
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. “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” (Bill Waterson: Calvin & Hobbes) On Aug 19, 2014, at 11:06 AM, Michael Tiernan wrote: On 8/12/14 3:02 PM, alast...@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. ___ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler ___ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
Re: [cobbler] Creating custom/local repos
On 8/12/14 3:02 PM, alast...@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. ___ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
