[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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>   
You probably noticed this already, but the manpage section I copied was 
for repo management, not the import command.   With the import command, 
you can pretty much point it across a rsync mirror that holds 40 distros 
and it's expected to import them all.

I'm still retrying the exact command you gave for the import (using 
mirrorservice) to see what createrepo reports.   So far I'm ok with 
internal mirrors and ibiblio, and the tree structure looks right.   
Should know shortly.

--Michael