Send cobbler mailing list submissions to cobbler(a)lists.fedorahosted.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to cobbler-request(a)lists.fedorahosted.org You can reach the person managing the list at cobbler-owner(a)lists.fedorahosted.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of cobbler digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: repo management and snapshots (Gerhardus Geldenhuis) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:25:11 +0100 From: Gerhardus Geldenhuis <gerhardus.geldenhuis(a)gmail.com&gt; Subject: Re: repo management and snapshots To: cobbler mailing list <cobbler(a)lists.fedorahosted.org&gt; Message-ID: <CAATm_0rnhkUFRXT8=hz4vVoyRM7O_AGX8ZBtpeQ+mymCAZ3DhA(a)mail.gmail.com&gt; Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Thanks for the response. I was also thinking about a sym link or hard link approach to save disk space. There is a cobbler hard link command mentioned on some of the online docs but this is not mentioned in the man page that I was reading but might be due to the version I am using. See this hard link flag made me wonder if there were already a solution in place. If I put some more thought into this... would this be something that is useful other people and could potentially be implemented more generically? Regards On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Christian Horn <chorn(a)fluxcoil.net&gt; wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 12:08:44PM +0100, Gerhardus Geldenhuis wrote: >> I looked around through the documentation but could not get a description > of >> how to do "repo" snapshots. I might have missed it or not have a full > grasp >> or understanding yet but would appreciate anyone sharing thoughts on how > to >> do it. >> >> Very simply I want to be able using only cobbler to create a snapshot of > a >> repository and called it for example RH5.6-Feb which should contain the > base >> repo plus all updates that has been releases up until that point. I want > to >> be able to then create monthly snapshots for example and when I build a >> server build it against one of these snapshots. If you can already do > this >> in cobbler I would appreciate some guidance or if not if anyone could > share >> how they achieve this with cobbler. > I think this is not implemented, you should be able to do it yourself for > repos that you host (have locally as files): > - 'cp -r /part/repo /part/reposnapshot' > - 'cobbler repo copy ...' to make the snapshot known to cobbler > > >> You can do this in spacewalk but I am >> not sure how much is spacewalk and how much is cobbler and I am keen to > not >> re-invent the wheel. For various reasons at the moment unfortunately I > can't >> use spacewalk to manage this so the solution has to be native to cobbler. > Cobbler is maintaining the repo just as a whole, spacewalk knows about the > packages inside. That way a clone of a channel in spacewalk (what you call > snapshot) happens mainly in the database, without creating copies of files. > > I think you could be fine with the cobbler approach. This one needs more > diskspace, yet that could be reduced in creating hardlinks for files that > exist in multiple repos. > > > Christian > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > cobbler(a)lists.fedorahosted.org > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler >