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