<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Oct 26, 2011, at 8:36 PM, Greg Swift wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 19:06, Dan White <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ygor@comcast.net">ygor@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex; position: static; z-index: auto; ">
<div style="word-wrap: break-word;">So, if I understand the patterns (I'm new to using producer/consumer patterns),<div>I set up a Pulp Server to manage the mirror-repositories (producer)</div><div>and point the Cobbler Server at them (as a client/consumer) and let Cobbler feed out the RPM's to the cobbler-ized client-hosts.</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br>You can actually have Cobbler do pass through repositories to pulp if you uncheck 'mirror locally' under advanced (I believe that is the right option).<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex; position: static; z-index: auto; ">
<div style="word-wrap: break-word;"><div><div><div>This sounds very do-able !</div><div><br></div><div>I have a repo on my Cobbler server of RPM's that are not from another repo, so I have to run "createrepo" manually whenever I update the collection. The client-hosts connecting thru Cobbler pick up the changes.</div>
<div><br></div><div>OK, one more question: I'm using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Can I still register these client-hosts with Red Hat Network ? I recently encountered a problem with Cobbler-generated yum mirror-repositories and the yum-rhn-plugin not playing nice together.</div>
</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>I use cobbler+rhn regularly and haven't seen any issues. feel free to bring this up in #cobbler on freenode or on the cobbler list.<br></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br><div>I have brought it up on the cobbler list (not dev) <<a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org/msg06621.html">http://www.mail-archive.com/cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org/msg06621.html</a>></div><div>and did not get any helpful information, and no one is active on the IRC every time I have tried -- #cobbler Right ? Is there a #cobbler-dev ? </div></body></html>