cobbler-config.repo with cobbler on alternative port

[Alaric Haag]

Hello all,

I'm quite new to Cobbler, but have made substantial progress and am grateful for this
project!

I run my Cobbler server on a non-standard port, and notice that the cobbler-config.repo
that lands in /etc/yum.repos.d/ of a new client install looks like this:

[core-0]
name=core-0
baseurl=http://x.x.x.x:NNNN/cobbler/ks_mirror/CentOS-6.2-x86_64
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
priority=1

[CentOS-6.2-x86_64]
name=CentOS-6.2-x86_64
baseurl=http://x.x.x.x/cobbler/repo_mirror/CentOS-6.2-x86_64
enabled=1
priority=99
gpgcheck=0

That is, the "core-0" repo gets the alternate port, but the
"CentOS..." repo I set up does not. 

Consequently, the "yum check-update" command fails until I add the port to the
baseurl assignment.

My digging suggested this is generated by the code in "kickgen.py" but it uses
the "$http_server" variable in both the "generate_repo_stanza" and
"generate_config_stanza" methods, so I'd expect the port number in any case.
I'm not sure where to dig in the code beyond that...

FYI, my kickstart does contain the "$yum_config_stanza" variable, and I do have
yum_post_install_mirror set to "1". 

Any thoughts/suggestions as to why no port number?? 

Many thanks!

Alaric

[James Cammarata]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Alaric Haag <haag(a)lsu.edu&gt; wrote:
>  Hello all,
>
>  I'm quite new to Cobbler, but have made substantial progress and am grateful for this
> project!
>
>  I run my Cobbler server on a non-standard port, and notice that the cobbler-config.repo
> that lands in /etc/yum.repos.d/ of a new client install looks like this:
>
>  [core-0]
>  name=core-0
>  baseurl=http://x.x.x.x:NNNN/cobbler/ks_mirror/CentOS-6.2-x86_64
>  enabled=1
>  gpgcheck=0
>  priority=1
>
>  [CentOS-6.2-x86_64]
>  name=CentOS-6.2-x86_64
>  baseurl=http://x.x.x.x/cobbler/repo_mirror/CentOS-6.2-x86_64
>  enabled=1
>  priority=99
>  gpgcheck=0
>
>  That is, the "core-0" repo gets the alternate port, but the
> "CentOS..." repo I set up does not.
>
>  Consequently, the "yum check-update" command fails until I add the port to the
> baseurl assignment.
>
>  My digging suggested this is generated by the code in "kickgen.py" but it uses
> the "$http_server" variable in both the "generate_repo_stanza" and
> "generate_config_stanza" methods, so I'd expect the port number in any case.
> I'm not sure where to dig in the code beyond that...
>
>  FYI, my kickstart does contain the "$yum_config_stanza" variable, and I do have
> yum_post_install_mirror set to "1".
>
>  Any thoughts/suggestions as to why no port number?? 
Yes, this would seem to be a bug in kickgen.py, which generates the
lines for the kickstart. Go ahead and open an issue via github and
I'll get this resolved. For now I'd suggest writting a snippet for
your %post that fixes those up.