[et-mgmt-tools] Creating a yum repo (via cobbler) from "scratch"?

[Michael DeHaan]

Sandor W. Sklar wrote:
>
> On Feb 1, 2008, at 7:16 AM, Michael DeHaan wrote:
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>> Adam Rosenwald wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the help Adam.
>
> Yes, again, thank you very much!
>>
>>
>> A few quick comments:
>> -- you don't actually have to call createrepo yourself, cobbler will 
>> do it for you.
>
> OK, that is good to know.
>
>>
>> -- we don't currently have the ability to assign a list of repos to a 
>> distro, only a profile, however that might be a good idea for a 
>> future addition.
>>
>> -- there's a quick writeup on some of the repo management stuff here: 
>> http://cobbler.et.redhat.com/cobbler-repos.php
>
> Thanks, I did read through that page (honest!) My new question is, is 
> there any way around keeping two copies of each RPM? For example, I 
> created my repo "base" in /var/repo/tsm-client/base, and then ran 
> "cobbler repo add ..." and "cobbler reposync", which all worked 
> perfectly.

Cobbler currently doesn't have the code to represent a repo it is not 
mirroring. There's an RFE filed on that though.

So you just want to throw stuff in /var/www/mystuff/reponame and run 
creatrepo there manually, and then mention that in your kickstart 
templates manually until that is in there.

--Michael