problem adding non-mirrored yum-repos

[Christian Horn]

Hi,

we already have a distro available and add it to cobbler
without mirroring it:

# cobbler import --path=/cobbler/webroot/x86_64/rhel5u3_serv --name=rhel5u3 \
#   --arch=x86_64 --available-as=http://10.0.0.1/x86_64/rhel5u3_serv

Now we createrepo on this and would like to have it added
to cobbler so set linux-deployed servers can get it via
$yum_config_stanza:

# createrepo /cobbler/webroot/x86_64/rhel5u3_serv
# cobbler repo add --mirror=http://10.0.0.1/x86_64/rhel5u3_serv \
#   --name=rhel5u3_serv --keep-updated=0 --mirror-locally=0
# cobbler reposync
#> - rhel5u3_serv is set to not be updated

We edit a profile to use the repo:

# cobbler profile edit --name=rhel5u3-x86_64 --repos='rhel5u3_serv'

Now checking what $yum_config_stanza resolves into:

# cobbler system getks --name=chhorn_tester64|grep yum.repo
#> wget "http://10.0.0.1/cblr/svc/op/yum/system/chhorn_tester64" \
#> --output-document=/etc/yum.repos.d/cobbler-config.repo

File http://10.0.0.1/cblr/svc/op/yum/system/chhorn_tester64 contains:

#> error: could not read repo source: /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/rhel5u3-repo/config.repo

In directory /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror there is only:
rhel-x86_64-server-5 .

Any suggestions?

Christian

[Michael DeHaan]

Christian Horn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we already have a distro available and add it to cobbler
> without mirroring it:
>
> # cobbler import --path=/cobbler/webroot/x86_64/rhel5u3_serv --name=rhel5u3 \
> #   --arch=x86_64 --available-as=http://10.0.0.1/x86_64/rhel5u3_serv

ok...
> Now we createrepo on this and would like to have it added
> to cobbler so set linux-deployed servers can get it via
> $yum_config_stanza:
>
> # createrepo /cobbler/webroot/x86_64/rhel5u3_serv
> # cobbler repo add --mirror=http://10.0.0.1/x86_64/rhel5u3_serv \
> #   --name=rhel5u3_serv --keep-updated=0 --mirror-locally=0

ok...
> # cobbler reposync
> #> - rhel5u3_serv is set to not be updated

If you don't set --keep-updated and it works, it has no meaning with 
--mirror-locally=0

So just "cobbler repo edit --name=foo --keep-updated=1" and things will 
work again after you run "cobbler reposync".

So, yes, this is a bug.

We should change this, however, so that if the repo is not being 
mirrored locally we don't have this potentially confusing problem.

--Michael

[Michael DeHaan]

Michael DeHaan wrote:
> Christian Horn wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > we already have a distro available and add it to cobbler
> > without mirroring it:
> >
> > # cobbler import --path=/cobbler/webroot/x86_64/rhel5u3_serv --name=rhel5u3 \
> > #   --arch=x86_64 --available-as=http://10.0.0.1/x86_64/rhel5u3_serv
>
> ok...
> > Now we createrepo on this and would like to have it added
> > to cobbler so set linux-deployed servers can get it via
> > $yum_config_stanza:
> >
> > # createrepo /cobbler/webroot/x86_64/rhel5u3_serv
> > # cobbler repo add --mirror=http://10.0.0.1/x86_64/rhel5u3_serv \
> > #   --name=rhel5u3_serv --keep-updated=0 --mirror-locally=0
>
> ok...
> > # cobbler reposync
> > #> - rhel5u3_serv is set to not be updated
>
> If you don't set --keep-updated and it works, it has no meaning with 
> --mirror-locally=0
>
> So just "cobbler repo edit --name=foo --keep-updated=1" and things will 
> work again after you run "cobbler reposync".
>
> So, yes, this is a bug.
>
> We should change this, however, so that if the repo is not being 
> mirrored locally we don't have this potentially confusing problem.
>
> --Michael
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To elaborate, keep-updated means "don't process this repo the next time 
you reposync". All repos, even external ones, must be processed at least 
once so we can generate
the configs for them. That, under the covers, is what happened here... 
the base config file wasn't created yet. We should probably have cobbler 
repo add create these in the future.

--Michael

[Christian Horn]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:45:03AM -0400, Michael DeHaan wrote:
> Michael DeHaan wrote:
> > Christian Horn wrote:
> > > we already have a distro available and add it to cobbler
> > > without mirroring it:
> > >
> > > # cobbler import --path=/cobbler/webroot/x86_64/rhel5u3_serv --name=rhel5u3 \
> > > #   --arch=x86_64 --available-as=http://10.0.0.1/x86_64/rhel5u3_serv
> > > # createrepo /cobbler/webroot/x86_64/rhel5u3_serv
> > > # cobbler repo add --mirror=http://10.0.0.1/x86_64/rhel5u3_serv \
> > > #   --name=rhel5u3_serv --keep-updated=0 --mirror-locally=0
> > > # cobbler reposync
> > > #> - rhel5u3_serv is set to not be updated
> >
> > If you don't set --keep-updated and it works, it has no meaning with 
> > --mirror-locally=0
> >
> > So just "cobbler repo edit --name=foo --keep-updated=1" and things will 
> > work again after you run "cobbler reposync".

Works perfectly, thanks.

Christian