help with cobbler import of debian wheezy via remote/rsync path

[Drew Morone]

Hey all,

I'm new to this list, and to cobbler. 
I'm able to run a successful cobbler import against a local distro (basically I mounted the first DVD iso from http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.1.0/amd64/iso-dvd/ ) using the following command:

cobbler import --name=wheezy --breed=debian --os-version=wheezy --path=/mnt/cdrom

That command imports wheezy-x86_64, wheezy-gtk-x86_64, wheezy-xen-x86_64
This is all fine, but that's not really what I want to do.

I want to be able to import from a remote path. I've found lots of sites recommending the parameters, and none of them work. Here's my current command line:

cobbler import --name=wheezy --breed=debian  --arch=x86_64 --os-version=wheezy --path="rsync://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/debian-installer/amd64/"

The result is:
task started: 2013-10-02_124212_import

task started (id=Media import, time=Wed Oct  2 12:42:12 2013)
No signature matched in /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/wheezy-x86_64
!!! TASK FAILED !!!

What's weird was that a couple of days ago, that same (I think) command line WAS importing, but it was a whole ton of stuff I didn't want, eg.:  
wheezy-dists-squeeze-mainer-20110106+squeeze4+b2-cdrom-gtk-x86_64
wheezy-dists-squeeze-mainer-20110106+squeeze4+b2-cdrom-x86_64
wheezy-dists-squeeze-mainer-20110106+squeeze4+b2-cdrom-xen-x86_64
wheezy-dists-squeeze-mainer-20110106+squeeze4+b3-cdrom-gtk-x86_64
wheezy-dists-squeeze-mainer-20110106+squeeze4+b3-cdrom-x86_64
wheezy-dists-squeeze-mainer-20110106+squeeze4+b3-cdrom-xen-x86_64 
for every architecture and every release and every distribution (like

Now it just doesn't work at all, just errors out with the "TASK FAILED" error. I tried blowing away  /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/wheezy-x86_64

Am I using the wrong method, or rsync path, or something else? I tried checking the maillist archives but didn't find anything.

Thanks

Drew

[James Cammarata]

Can you verify that the rsync is completing? There should be a message in
/var/log/cobbler/cobbler.log with the output from the rsync. My bet is that
it's not copying everything (or completely failing somehow) and thus the
required files for import are not there.

On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Drew Morone  wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I'm new to this list, and to cobbler.
> I'm able to run a successful cobbler import against a local distro
> (basically I mounted the first DVD iso from
> http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.1.0/amd64/iso-dvd/ ) using the
> following command:
>
> cobbler import --name=wheezy --breed=debian --os-version=wheezy
> --path=/mnt/cdrom
>
> That command imports wheezy-x86_64, wheezy-gtk-x86_64, wheezy-xen-x86_64
> This is all fine, but that's not really what I want to do.
>
> I want to be able to import from a remote path. I've found lots of sites
> recommending the parameters, and none of them work. Here's my current
> command line:
>
> cobbler import --name=wheezy --breed=debian  --arch=x86_64
> --os-version=wheezy --path="rsync://
> ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/debian-installer/amd64/
> "
>
> The result is:
> task started: 2013-10-02_124212_import
> task started (id=Media import, time=Wed Oct  2 12:42:12 2013)
> No signature matched in /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/wheezy-x86_64
> !!! TASK FAILED !!!
>
> What's weird was that a couple of days ago, that same (I think) command
> line WAS importing, but it was a whole ton of stuff I didn't want, eg.:
>
> wheezy-dists-squeeze-mainer-20110106+squeeze4+b2-cdrom-gtk-x86_64
> wheezy-dists-squeeze-mainer-20110106+squeeze4+b2-cdrom-x86_64
> wheezy-dists-squeeze-mainer-20110106+squeeze4+b2-cdrom-xen-x86_64
> wheezy-dists-squeeze-mainer-20110106+squeeze4+b3-cdrom-gtk-x86_64
> wheezy-dists-squeeze-mainer-20110106+squeeze4+b3-cdrom-x86_64
> wheezy-dists-squeeze-mainer-20110106+squeeze4+b3-cdrom-xen-x86_64
>
> for every architecture and every release and every distribution (like
>
> Now it just doesn't work at all, just errors out with the "TASK FAILED"
> error. I tried blowing away  /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/wheezy-x86_64
>
> Am I using the wrong method, or rsync path, or something else? I tried
> checking the maillist archives but didn't find anything.
>
> Thanks
>
> Drew
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