[et-mgmt-tools] cobbler import --mirror error

[James Fidell]

Michael DeHaan wrote:

> Apologies on being lazy here, though per the manpage...
> 
>    mirror
> 
>    The addresss of the mirror.  This needs to be either an rsync:// url
> or an ssh location usable with rsync.
>    The mirror address should specify an exact repository to mirror --
> just one architecture
>    and just one distribution.  If you have a seperate repo to mirror for
> a different arch, add that
>    repo seperately.
> 
>    Here's an example of what looks like a good URL:
> 
>    rsync://yourmirror.example.com/fedora-linux-core/6/i386 (for rsync
> protocol)
>    user at yourmirror.example.com/fedora-linux-core/6/i386  (for SSH)
> 
> What I thought was a related problem is just something I'm seeing during
> the unit tests, so that was a bit of wild goose chase.
> 
> Your problem is that you didn't rsync enough data, and don't have the
> comps file.    Do an import using the URL format specified in the
> manpage and you should be good to go.   I would suggest cleaning up
> /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror manually before doing that, just to free up
> the extra space on your drives.
> 
> Hope this helps, if not, let me know...

This time I did:

  cobbler import
--mirror=rsync://rsync.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386
--name=fedoracore6

which i think is as close to the example given as I can get.  I still
get the same error (though obviously it's looking for the comps.xml file
in a slightly different location this time):

  Error: groupfile
/var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/fedoracore6/i386/os/repodata/comps.xml cannot
be found.

James