[et-mgmt-tools] rhn reposync failing

[Michael DeHaan]

Adrian Revill wrote:
> I had a rhn reposync working with 0.8, but im now trying to set up 
> cobbler 1.0.1-2 on a new server. As far as i can see the configuration 
> is the same but when ever i run cobbler reposync i get
>
> /# cobbler reposync
> - creating: /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/.origin/rhel-x86_64-server-5.repo
> - createrepo -c cache /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/rhel-x86_64-server-5
>
> Saving Primary metadata
> Saving file lists metadata
> Saving other metadata
> - creating: /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/rhel-x86_64-server-5/config.repo/
>
> In /var/log/cobbler/cobbler.log all it says is
> /2008-06-10 11:42:38,268 - api - reposync; [None]
> /
> I noticed it is not setting up the yum plugins, i have found that in 
> earlier versions of /usr/bin/reposync the loading of plugins was hard 
> coded on, but in the latest redhat version (yum-utils-1.1.10-9) it is 
> a command line option (-l)
>
> I have found a work around, edit /var/lib/cobbler/repos and add -l to 
> the end of the arch: line
>
> arch:  x86_64  -l
>
> This then gets appended to the end of the command args that are passed 
> to reposync by cobbler.
>
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Yes, apparently yum-utils changed.  As we pretty much need the new 
version for this functionality, I'll add this.

Thanks!

--Michael