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

[Michael DeHaan]

James Fidell wrote:
> 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
>
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Ok, thanks, I'll check into this further then...

--MPD