I'm working on a Cobbler Chef recipe for my company and decided to use
Cobbler 2.4.0.  I'm running into a problem when trying to do the initial
reposync.  Our Yum repos are using https and Cobbler seems to want to fail
over to rsync+ssh, which won't work.

Is there a way to force reposync to use yumdownloader instead?  It's
currently a blocker for me.  Stack trace below.

# cobbler reposync --only centos6_2-x86_64
task started: 2013-08-12_233011_reposync
task started (id=Reposync, time=Mon Aug 12 23:30:11 2013)
hello, reposync
run, reposync, run!
running: rsync -rltDv --copy-unsafe-links --delete-after -e ssh --delete
--exclude-from=/etc/cobbler/rsync.exclude
https://yum.*REDACTED*.com/centos/6.2/os/x86_64/
/var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/centos6_2-x86_64
received on stdout:
received on stderr: ssh: Could not resolve hostname https: Name or service
not known
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [receiver]
rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(600) [receiver=3.0.6]

Exception occured: <class 'cobbler.cexceptions.CX'>
Exception value: 'cobbler reposync failed'
Exception Info:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/utils.py", line 129, in die
    raise CX(msg)

Exception occured: <class 'cobbler.cexceptions.CX'>
Exception value: 'cobbler reposync failed'
Exception Info:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/action_reposync.py", line
125, in run
    self.sync(repo)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/action_reposync.py", line
173, in sync
    return self.rsync_sync(repo)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/action_reposync.py", line
247, in rsync_sync
    utils.die(self.logger,"cobbler reposync failed")
   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/utils.py", line 137, in
die
    raise CX(msg)

reposync failed, tries left: 0
reposync failed, retry limit reached, skipping
running: chown -R root:apache /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/centos6_2-x86_64
received on stdout:
received on stderr:
running: chmod -R 755 /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/centos6_2-x86_64
received on stdout:
received on stderr:
Exception occured: <class 'cobbler.cexceptions.CX'>
Exception value: 'overall reposync failed, at least one repo failed to
synchronize'
Exception Info:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/utils.py", line 129, in die
    raise CX(msg)

Exception occured: <class 'cobbler.cexceptions.CX'>
Exception value: 'overall reposync failed, at least one repo failed to
synchronize'
Exception Info:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/remote.py", line 89, in run
    rc = self._run(self)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/remote.py", line 248, in
runner
    3), name=name, nofail=nofail, logger=self.logger)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/api.py", line 808, in
reposync
    return reposync.run(name)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/action_reposync.py", line
154, in run
    utils.die(self.logger,"overall reposync failed, at least one repo
failed to synchronize")
   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/utils.py", line 137, in
die
    raise CX(msg)

!!! TASK FAILED !!!