Multiple architecture repo mirror

[Evan Sarmiento]

Hi,

According to the documentation, you can mirror repositories as shown here:

http://cobbler.github.io/manuals/2.6.0/3/7_-_Package_Management_and_Mirrorin...

However, instead of mirroring multiple architectures like ‘x86_64’, ‘i386’, or even multiple versions of an operating system separately like ‘f12-i386-updates’, ‘f12-i386-extras' is there a way in Cobbler I can mirror ALL of these repos and push them to one locally stored directory so I can use the $releasever and $releasearch variables?

Best,
Evan

[Vinh Phan]

Not sure about not mirroring multiple architectures or versions, I don't see how that is avoidable.  But our repos in cobbler are defined only using variables.

Instead of

$ cobbler repo add --mirror=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/12/ --name=f12-i386-updates
$ cobbler repo add --mirror=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/12/Everything/i3... --name=f12-i386-everything

use variables instead

We use an mrepo server to host/create/manage our internal repos.  (It generates the same url paths as the public repos, but with our internal hostname)

All our repos have essentially the same urls for updates, base, centosplus, extras

[root@<cobbler server> ~]# cobbler repo report --name=updates
Name                           : updates
Apt Components (apt only)      : []
Apt Dist Names (apt only)      : []
Arch                           : x86_64
Breed                          : yum
Comment                        :
Createrepo Flags               : <<inherit>>
Environment Variables          : {}
Keep Updated                   : True
Mirror                         : http://<internal repo servername>/mrepo/centos$releasever-$basearch/RPMS.updates
Mirror locally                 : False
Owners                         : ['admin']
Priority                       : 1
External proxy URL             :
RPM List                       : []
Yum Options                    : {'gpgcheck': '1', 'gpgkey': 'http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-$releasever', 'enabled': '0'}

This repo is associated with all CentOS cobbler profiles.