Fedora 12 ppc Distro Import Error

[Bob Cochran]

Greetings,

Last night I had fun importing 3 different distros into cobbler version 
2.3.1. However there was a problem with one of the imports.

Distro 1 was Fedora 12 ppc64. I downloaded the Fedora 12 DVD from the 
Fedorahosted.org archives and imported the DVD. Cobbler got upset with 
me because in the import request I used '--arch=ppc' and the software 
detected arch=ppc64. So I redid the import statement with --arch=ppc64 
and after a while the import task ended with '***TASK FAILED***'. There 
was no other error output to indicate a problem with the processing. 
Just the final statement '***TASK FAILED***. Do I need to back out this 
import in some way? Do I need to redo the import?

Distro 2 was Fedora 17 i386. Import succeeded.

Distro 3 was Fedora 17 x86_64. import succeeded.

Thanks a ton for any help!

Bob Cochran

[James Cammarata]

On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Bob Cochran <bcochran13(a)verizon.net&gt; wrote:
>  Greetings,
>
>  Last night I had fun importing 3 different distros into cobbler version
>  2.3.1. However there was a problem with one of the imports.
>
>  Distro 1 was Fedora 12 ppc64. I downloaded the Fedora 12 DVD from the
>  Fedorahosted.org archives and imported the DVD. Cobbler got upset with me
>  because in the import request I used '--arch=ppc' and the software detected
>  arch=ppc64. So I redid the import statement with --arch=ppc64 and after a
>  while the import task ended with '***TASK FAILED***'. There was no other
>  error output to indicate a problem with the processing. Just the final
>  statement '***TASK FAILED***. Do I need to back out this import in some way?
>  Do I need to redo the import? 
Were any errors/stackdumps in /var/log/cobbler/cobbler.log?

[Bob Cochran]

On 6/3/12 2:31 PM, James Cammarata wrote:
>  On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Bob
> Cochran<bcochran13(a)verizon.net>  wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Last night I had fun importing 3 different distros into cobbler version
> > 2.3.1. However there was a problem with one of the imports.
> >
> > Distro 1 was Fedora 12 ppc64. I downloaded the Fedora 12 DVD from the
> > Fedorahosted.org archives and imported the DVD. Cobbler got upset with me
> > because in the import request I used '--arch=ppc' and the software detected
> > arch=ppc64. So I redid the import statement with --arch=ppc64 and after a
> > while the import task ended with '***TASK FAILED***'. There was no other
> > error output to indicate a problem with the processing. Just the final
> > statement '***TASK FAILED***. Do I need to back out this import in some way?
> > Do I need to redo the import?
>  Were any errors/stackdumps in /var/log/cobbler/cobbler.log? 
Yes, I see it now after checking the log. Perhaps it was echoed to the 
screen at the time of import ansd I missed it. The error message is:

"An exception occured while running the import manager
Error was: '--os-version for breed redhat must be one of rhel3, rhel4, 
rhel5, rhel6, fedora14, fedora15, fedora16, fedora17...'
no import managers found a valid signature at the location specified"

So it is rejecting Fedora 12 in any flavor? Is that it? Is there a 
workaround for this, since I do need Fedora 12 PPC (or ppc64, if it can 
go on an old MacBook)?

Thanks

Bob

[James Cammarata]

On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Bob Cochran <bcochran13(a)verizon.net&gt; wrote:
>  On 6/3/12 2:31 PM, James Cammarata wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Bob Cochran&lt;bcochran13(a)verizon.net&gt;
> >  wrote:
> >>
> >> Greetings,
> >>
> >> Last night I had fun importing 3 different distros into cobbler version
> >> 2.3.1. However there was a problem with one of the imports.
> >>
> >> Distro 1 was Fedora 12 ppc64. I downloaded the Fedora 12 DVD from the
> >> Fedorahosted.org archives and imported the DVD. Cobbler got upset with me
> >> because in the import request I used '--arch=ppc' and the software
> >> detected
> >> arch=ppc64. So I redid the import statement with --arch=ppc64 and after a
> >> while the import task ended with '***TASK FAILED***'. There was no other
> >> error output to indicate a problem with the processing. Just the final
> >> statement '***TASK FAILED***. Do I need to back out this import in some
> >> way?
> >> Do I need to redo the import?
> >
> > Were any errors/stackdumps in /var/log/cobbler/cobbler.log?
>
>
>  Yes, I see it now after checking the log. Perhaps it was echoed to the
>  screen at the time of import ansd I missed it. The error message is:
>
>  "An exception occured while running the import manager
>  Error was: '--os-version for breed redhat must be one of rhel3, rhel4,
>  rhel5, rhel6, fedora14, fedora15, fedora16, fedora17...'
>  no import managers found a valid signature at the location specified"
>
>  So it is rejecting Fedora 12 in any flavor? Is that it? Is there a
>  workaround for this, since I do need Fedora 12 PPC (or ppc64, if it can go
>  on an old MacBook)? 
You can force it by setting --os-version=generic26, or you can
hand-edit codes.py to add fedora12 to the list (and then use that for
--os-version). I wouldn't recommend the later, though I'm not sure why
fedora12 was removed - it'd only be about 4 years old and we still
have rhel3 in there.

[Jörgen Maas]

On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 9:40 PM, James Cammarata <jimi(a)sngx.net&gt; wrote:

>  You can force it by setting --os-version=generic26, or you can
>  hand-edit codes.py to add fedora12 to the list (and then use that for
>  --os-version). I wouldn't recommend the later, though I'm not sure why
>  fedora12 was removed - it'd only be about 4 years old and we still
>  have rhel3 in there.
>
>  
The rationale at that time was to only have vendor supported OS versions
supported in Cobbler, this would allow for easier testing before a release.
With regard to RHEL3; with the extended live cycle support option, RHEL 3
will be supported until October 2013.

-- 
Grtz,
Jörgen Maas