[Ovirt-devel] Re: cobbler import of a repo with only noarch packages in it

[Michael DeHaan]

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?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Perry
>
>   

It seems you want "cobbler repo add" and not "import", as you're talking 
more about a noarch repo than an install tree.   I don't see how you 
could get an installable distribution with just noarch packages :)

Import is for install trees, which can also be used as repos, yes.

But repos are not == install trees.

Does that make sense or did I miss something?

If you're doing something really simple "cobbler distro add" alone might 
suffice, though I'd like to understand a little more about the use case 
to say for sure.

--Michael