[et-mgmt-tools] cobbler: import of x86_64 repo creates i386 distro

[Eugene Ventimiglia]

Maybe I shouldn't be doing import at all, or doing a lot more
configuration; I tried what you said, and then ran import with the
RH4-i386 source and one distro over-wrote the other.

I need 2 seperate "distros" one for i386 and one for x86_64

How can I do this?

-----Original Message-----
From: et-mgmt-tools-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:et-mgmt-tools-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Michael DeHaan
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 8:24 PM
To: Fedora/Linux Management Tools
Subject: Re: [et-mgmt-tools] cobbler: import of x86_64 repo creates i386
distro

Eugene Ventimiglia wrote:
> I'm running:
>
> cobbler import
> --path=/mnt/os-install/exported/media/Linux/RH-4.0-ES-U4-AMD64/
> --name=rhel4
>
> and cobbler list reports:
>
> ...
> distro rhel4-i386
>    profile rhel4-i386
>
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It sort of looks like a bug, but it isn't.  Cobbler determines the 
"arch" bits based on the paths you import.    As the standard 
rsync/build trees (well, RHEL really doesn't have them -- Fedora and
RHEL derivatives do), typically say x86_64 or i386 in them, it uses the
presense of these tokens in the part to ID the distro.

If you are importing from a DVD, this shouldn't happen.

Basically the names don't mean anything, so you can just do the
following and will be fine:

cobbler profile rename --name=rhel4-i386 --newname=rhel4-x86_64
--arch=x86 cobbler distro rename --name=rhel4-i386
--newname=rhel4-x86_64 --arch=x86

The arch field really isn't needed except for distinguishing that things
are /not/ ia64 boxes, which require different baremetal boot loader
setup.

--Michael




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