Re: [cobbler] RHEL 5 Update problem

[Dan White]

I am using Red Hat Enterprise Linux, not CentOS. 
I got nothing back from "yum provides */virt-unstall" run on the system.

>  On Jul 23, 2014, at 3:05 PM, Orion Poplawski
> <orion(a)cora.nwra.com&gt; wrote:
>  
> > On 06/02/2014 07:08 AM, Dan White wrote:
> > Using EPEL as my source, trying to update this morning :
> > 
> > It wants to update:
> > cobbler.noarch                   2.4.4-1.el5            epel
> > cobbler-web.noarch           2.4.4-1.el5            epel
> > koan.noarch                       2.4.4-1.el5            epel
> > 
> > And then it says:
> > Error: Missing Dependency: virt-install is needed by package
> > koan-2.4.4-1.el5.noarch (epel)
> > 
> > A search reveals that there is no such animal anywhere in EPEL or in anything
> > that looks like ot is compatible with RHEL 5
>  
>  virt-install should be provided by python-virtinst.  I see it in the CentOS-Base repo.
>  
> > Can I do without koan ?  I use Cobbler for bare metal installs.  Nothing virtual.
>  
>  Probably.  koan is helpful for VM installs and for kicking off reinstalls on a physical
> machine.  But you can just PXE boot to start the install.
>  
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