James Cammarata wrote:
On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:02:03 -0500, Perry Myers
<pmyers(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to do a cobbler import of a directory structure that only has
> noarch packages in it. I'm using the import to create a minimal pxe boot
> environment without needing to mirror all of the packages (we just use
> external repos for the packages)
>
> However, when I try to do a cobbler import of a directory structure that
> only contains noarch packages I get the following error:
>> + cobbler import --name=Fedora-10 --arch=x86_64
> --path=/var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/Fedora-10-x86_64
>> sending incremental file list
>>
>> sent 392 bytes received 16 bytes 816.00 bytes/sec
>> total size is 134808812 speedup is 330413.75
>> Given arch (x86_64) not found on imported tree
> /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/Fedora-10-x86_64/Packages
>> - rsync -a '/var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/Fedora-10-x86_64/'
> /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/Fedora-10-x86_64
> --exclude-from=/etc/cobbler/rsync.exclude --progress
>> ---------------- (adding distros)
>> - found content (breed=redhat) at
> /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/Fedora-10-x86_64/images/pxeboot
>
> I know in the past we were able to import a directory structure with only
> noarch packages and still specify an arch (x86_64 or i386) and it didn't
> fail like above. Is this a recent change or restriction? Should we just
> add a single arch specific package to the directory structure to get
> around this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Perry
What version of cobbler are you running? I know there were a lot of
changes to the import stuff for debian recently, including how it detected
the arch from the tree automatically, it's possible if you're running a
newer version that functionality may have been broken inadvertently.
I'm running 1.4.0-2 and I think I found the problem... You're right it is
with the arch detection. Even though I pass --arch to the cobbler import
manually, it still tries to verify the arch by looking specifically at the
kernel-headers package located in the path that you are importing from.
Problem is, our minimal tree didn't even have kernel-headers in it.
To fix the problem I'm just going to add kernel-headers package into our
tree. That seems to work.
Thanks,
Perry
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