On Fri, 6 Mar 2009, Chris O'Regan wrote:

>> I have done so with CentOS in the past. The main issue is that Cobbler
>> works best when you mirror a version-architecture tree (as in 5.2/i386
>> 5.2/x86_64 4.7/etc.) Trying to mirror ALL of XYZ Linux in one set does
>> not work well. I found that out the hard way.. Personally I just set
>> it up to mirror a tree for CentOS and had a cron job that updated the
>> updates.
>
> I have been investigating this most of the morning and I am now leaning
> toward mirroring the distribution externally.
>
> A few more questions:
>
> Do I need to recreate the "repodata" directories?

If you mirror them you do not have to recreate them unless you add/change 
the rpms in the ../repodata directory.

>
> Are the packages in the "contrib" directory ever updated? Or more to the
> point, is there any content other than the "updates" directory that
> isn't static from one release to the next?

After a tree has been released the updates and the contrib directory 
contents can change.  The other directories should be static.


>
> Do you mirror the "5x" tree or a specific version?

Depends on what you want to use.  The 5x tree points to the current 
version tree.  So it points to 52 today but in a week or so it will point 
to the 53 tree.

If you want to "stay" on 5.2 then you mirror that tree.

>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
>

-Connie Sieh