How to do cobbler import with --available-as using http/ftp

[Parthasarathy, Balaji (BCS, Cupertino, USA)]

I'm running cobbler 2.0.11 on F16.

When I try to cobbler import as follows:
cobbler import --path=/tmp/RHEL6.2-Server-x86_64-Local --name=RHEL6.2-Server-x86_64-Remote
--arch=x86_64 --available-as=http://<some_server>/distros/RHEL6.2-Server-x86_64

the command doesn't do anything. The below command works.

cobbler import --path=/tmp/RHEL6.2-Server-x86_64-Local --name=RHEL6.2-Server-x86_64-Remote
--arch=x86_64
--available-as="nfs://<some_server>:/var/www/html/distros/RHEL6.2-Server-x86_64"

How do I do the same with http?

Balaji

[James Cammarata]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Parthasarathy, Balaji (BCS,
Cupertino, USA) <balaji.parthasarathy(a)hp.com&gt; wrote:
>  I’m running cobbler 2.0.11 on F16.
>
>  When I try to cobbler import as follows:
>
>  cobbler import --path=/tmp/RHEL6.2-Server-x86_64-Local
>  --name=RHEL6.2-Server-x86_64-Remote --arch=x86_64
>  --available-as=http://<some_server>/distros/RHEL6.2-Server-x86_64
>
>  the command doesn’t do anything. The below command works.
>
>  cobbler import --path=/tmp/RHEL6.2-Server-x86_64-Local
>  --name=RHEL6.2-Server-x86_64-Remote --arch=x86_64
>
> --available-as="nfs://<some_server>:/var/www/html/distros/RHEL6.2-Server-x86_64"
>
>  How do I do the same with http? 
Do you have the ISO mounted at /tmp/RHEL6.2-Server-x86_64-Local?

When you use --available-as, you need to still have some files locally
if the path is HTTP or FTP. Download the ISO and mount it, and
--available-as means the files will not be copied from the ISO to
locally.

[Parthasarathy, Balaji (BCS, Cupertino, USA)]

> > I’m running cobbler 2.0.11 on F16.
> >
> > When I try to cobbler import as follows:
> >
> > cobbler import --path=/tmp/RHEL6.2-Server-x86_64-Local
> > --name=RHEL6.2-Server-x86_64-Remote --arch=x86_64
> > --available-as=http://<some_server>/distros/RHEL6.2-Server-x86_64
> >
> > the command doesn’t do anything. The below command works.
> >
> > How do I do the same with http?
>
> Do you have the ISO mounted at /tmp/RHEL6.2-Server-x86_64-Local?
>
> When you use --available-as, you need to still have some files locally if the path is
> HTTP or FTP. Download the ISO and mount it, and --available-as means the files
> will not be copied from the ISO to locally.
>  
James,
Can you clarify why the ISO still needs to be mounted locally if I'm only going to use
the distro tree at the remote URL? The import tool seems to scan some files in the distro
to extract some information. Is that why it needs the ISO mounted locally? Can't it
get the same information from the remote http URL given in the --available-as option?
Thanks for your clarifications.

Balaji

[Jonathan Underwood]

On 13 July 2012 20:41, James Cammarata <jimi(a)sngx.net&gt; wrote:
>  On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Parthasarathy, Balaji (BCS,
>  Cupertino, USA) <balaji.parthasarathy(a)hp.com&gt; wrote:
> > I’m running cobbler 2.0.11 on F16.
> >
> > When I try to cobbler import as follows:
> >
> > cobbler import --path=/tmp/RHEL6.2-Server-x86_64-Local
> > --name=RHEL6.2-Server-x86_64-Remote --arch=x86_64
> > --available-as=http://<some_server>/distros/RHEL6.2-Server-x86_64
> >
> > the command doesn’t do anything. The below command works.
> >
> > cobbler import --path=/tmp/RHEL6.2-Server-x86_64-Local
> > --name=RHEL6.2-Server-x86_64-Remote --arch=x86_64
> >
> --available-as="nfs://<some_server>:/var/www/html/distros/RHEL6.2-Server-x86_64"
> >
> > How do I do the same with http?
>
>  Do you have the ISO mounted at /tmp/RHEL6.2-Server-x86_64-Local?
>
>  When you use --available-as, you need to still have some files locally
>  if the path is HTTP or FTP. Download the ISO and mount it, and
>  --available-as means the files will not be copied from the ISO to
>  locally. 
This is what I used with cobbler 2.2.2 on rhel 6.2:

cobbler import --path=/srv/www/repos.server/mirrors/SL/6.2/x86_64/os
--breed=redhat --name=SL-6.2-x86_64
--available-as=http://repos.server/mirrors/SL/6.2/x86_64/os

where cobbler was running on the same machine serving up the distro
via http. It did seem odd to me at the time that to get it to work I
had to use --path.

HTH
jonathan.



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