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Subject: Re: Install Most Recent Fedora 14 Packages vs. What Is On DVD
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 22:16:56 -0400
From: Alan Crosswell <alan(a)columbia.edu>
To: Christian Horn <chorn(a)fluxcoil.net>
CC: cobbler mailing list <cobbler(a)lists.fedorahosted.org>
OK, so I can't use a metalink, but can use
http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$release/$bas...
which is what I was trying to do anyway. I did have an error popup a
couple of times during installiton and had to select retry due to a
complaint about a corrupted RPM -- so I guess one of the Fedora mirrors
is messed up (the Anaconda log on tty3 shows HTTP 403 errors from
mirror.cc.vt.edu). It would be nice if Anaconda would automatically
retry a couple of times so I can get a totally hands-off install.... I
think because Anaconda only thinks it's got the one mirror (1/1). Maybe
I can just make two or three repos that are identical copies so Anaconda
will think it has more repos to try....
/a
On 03/07/2011 01:56 AM, Christian Horn wrote:
On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 05:09:19PM -0500, Alan Crosswell wrote:
> Does cobbler support metalink URLs for repos like those found in
> /etc/yum.repos.d? Something like (with the variables expanded for the
> specific release and arch):
>
>
https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-14&arch=i386
>
> Last time I tried this, I found I had to provide a specific mirror.
True, doesnt work.
Apparently to check availability of the mirror 'cobbler reposync' tries
to fetch 'repodata/repomd.xml'. For a url you have in mind like
https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-6&arch=$basearch
the possible values of $basearch you want to use would have to be guessed
by reposync.. maybe the check could be disabled. When repos are not to
be mirrored locally fetching 'repodata/repomd.xml' serves no further
purpose than 'quick check' as i see it. Might be deeper magic there thou.
Christian