[Pulp-list] N00b: Pulp and Cobbler ?
Greg Swift
gregswift at gmail.com
Thu Oct 27 00:36:34 UTC 2011
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 19:06, Dan White <ygor at comcast.net> wrote:
> So, if I understand the patterns (I'm new to using producer/consumer
> patterns),
> I set up a Pulp Server to manage the mirror-repositories (producer)
> and point the Cobbler Server at them (as a client/consumer) and let Cobbler
> feed out the RPM's to the cobbler-ized client-hosts.
>
You can actually have Cobbler do pass through repositories to pulp if you
uncheck 'mirror locally' under advanced (I believe that is the right
option).
> This sounds very do-able !
>
> I have a repo on my Cobbler server of RPM's that are not from another repo,
> so I have to run "createrepo" manually whenever I update the collection.
> The client-hosts connecting thru Cobbler pick up the changes.
>
> OK, one more question: I'm using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Can I still
> register these client-hosts with Red Hat Network ? I recently encountered a
> problem with Cobbler-generated yum mirror-repositories and the
> yum-rhn-plugin not playing nice together.
>
I use cobbler+rhn regularly and haven't seen any issues. feel free to bring
this up in #cobbler on freenode or on the cobbler list.
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