[Ovirt-devel] cobbler import of a repo with only noarch packages in it
Perry Myers
pmyers at redhat.com
Sun Dec 28 05:06:53 UTC 2008
Perry Myers wrote:
> Perry Myers wrote:
>> I'm trying to do a cobbler import of a directory structure that only
>> has noarch packages in it. I'm using the import to create a minimal
>> pxe boot environment without needing to mirror all of the packages (we
>> just use external repos for the packages)
>>
>> However, when I try to do a cobbler import of a directory structure
>> that only contains noarch packages I get the following error:
>>> + cobbler import --name=Fedora-10 --arch=x86_64
>>> --path=/var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/Fedora-10-x86_64
>>> sending incremental file list
>>>
>>> sent 392 bytes received 16 bytes 816.00 bytes/sec
>>> total size is 134808812 speedup is 330413.75
>>> Given arch (x86_64) not found on imported tree
>>> /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/Fedora-10-x86_64/Packages
>>>
>>> - rsync -a '/var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/Fedora-10-x86_64/'
>>> /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/Fedora-10-x86_64
>>> --exclude-from=/etc/cobbler/rsync.exclude --progress
>>> ---------------- (adding distros)
>>> - found content (breed=redhat) at
>>> /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/Fedora-10-x86_64/images/pxeboot
>>
>> I know in the past we were able to import a directory structure with
>> only noarch packages and still specify an arch (x86_64 or i386) and it
>> didn't fail like above. Is this a recent change or restriction?
>> Should we just add a single arch specific package to the directory
>> structure to get around this?
>
> So, for those of you using the 0.96 release or building new appliances
> from the development repositories it appears that a new version of
> cobbler in Fedora has broken the ovirt-appliance.
>
> I've posted the above question to the cobbler mailing list to find out
> if this was an intended change or something that recently broke in
> cobbler. Hopefully it is the latter and an update to the cobbler package
> will fix this. The alternative is that we need to change the appliance
> build procedure to account for this change and we'll have to do a 0.96-2
> release to fix this.
Hmm, scratch the part about this affecting the 0.96 release. I think we
built the appliance with a working version of cobbler so this shouldn't
affect 0.96 only building from the development repos.
Perry
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