On 30/08/11 17:08, Gerhardus Geldenhuis wrote:
Hi
I am working on a simple internal file based (symlinks) method to
snapshot repos on a monthly basis making use of cobbler. For various
reasons we are not using spacewalk to manage that... I am thinking with
a Red Hat / CentOS hat on so probably not considering other OS'es. My
question is simple, do you think that adding a repo snapshot ability to
cobbler is worthwhile or is that task better suited to be implemented in
spacewalk or other management software? If our interim solution becomes
more permanent, I thought it would be useful to build this into cobbler
rather than tagging it on afterwards. However things get more
complicated if you take into consideration that these snapshots
potentially need to be replicated across multiple cobbler servers and
all of the other things I have probably not considered. So before I go
off on a tangent I thought I would get some opinions.
Hi,
Are you planning to do this on-top of the current repo management
facilities?
I know for fedora/centos reposync is used, for debian/ubuntu it uses
debmirror.
The layout of the debian repository structure allows for easy
"snapshotting" using symlinks on the Packages.gz and Release file,
debmirror recently got this feature and more with the --debmarshal switch.
Cheers,
Tom