I have been trying to download and import a Debian 5.0 repository as per the instructions on this page:

https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/DebianDeployment

I define the environment variables and execute the command as shown...  First error is that cobbler states that --os-version is no longer a valid option.  So I proceed by removing that option and rexecuting with the resulting following error:

[saverino@ln22ms ~]$ arch=i386
[saverino@ln22ms ~]$ dist=lenny
[saverino@ln22ms ~]$ hostname=ftp.es.debian.org
[root@ln22ms saverino]# cobbler import --name=${dist}-net --breed=debian --arch=${arch}         --mirror=rsync://${hostname}/debian/dists/${dist}/main/installer-${arch}/current/images/netboot/debian-installer/${arch}
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Cheetah/CacheRegion.py:30: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead
  import md5
- rsync -a  'rsync://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/debian-installer/i386/' /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/lenny-net-i386 --exclude-from=/etc/cobbler/rsync.exclude --progress

receiving incremental file list

sent 169 bytes  received 529 bytes  279.20 bytes/sec
total size is 7542574  speedup is 10805.98
---------------- (adding distros)
No distro signature for kernel at /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror

I get the same result with cobbler under Fedora 10 or Fedora 11 (all updates applied).  Any advise on what may be causing the problem would be appreciated.

Many Thanks,

Mike...