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Karanbir Singh wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On 04/24/2009 08:25 PM, Sean Gilligan wrote:
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<pre wrap="">That's really cool! I'd love to help with testing and documentation. I'm
also interested in sharing Cobbler configurations publicly, but I'm not
sure what that entails.
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There is a small app I wrote many years back to handle kickstarts, I am
sure that could be expanded into something that can be used to share
cobbler / puppet / kickstart configs. Something that should move up in
the priority list for sure.
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I'm pretty sure the cobbler web interface allows you to share cobbler
and kickstart configs - would you integrate with that? (I haven't
looked at it for a while and it may be designed for use inside a
firewall. I'm not familiar with puppet.)<br>
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<pre wrap="">I noticed this wiki page
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/CreateLocalMirror">http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/CreateLocalMirror</a>) was recently added. I
believe using Cobbler is a valid alternative approach for this, right?
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not really - but there is a definite overlap in interest there. Cobbler
uses reposync under the hood - which is something that should absolutely
be on that page, since thats what it does.
Cobbler on the other hand is a much wider and a much more focused tool
on provisioning, not so much about management and maintenance.
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I set up a local mirror of a Fedora 6 yum repo about 2 years ago and it
was not simple (for me). About a year ago I did it for Fedora 8 with
cobbler and it was very simple. My recollection was that Cobbler was a
superset of setting up a local repo and, given the ease of use, a
better solution.<br>
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I hope to be setting up cobbler on CentOS 5.3 shortly, so that should
refresh my memory.<br>
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-- Sean<br>
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