On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 18:11:37 +0000, Underwood, Jonathan > Actually, further probing reveals that the package sl-release is missin g > from the cobbler mirror of the SL repo, but IS present on the SL > repository. So, the question then becomes why did cobbler mirror the wh ole > repo except for that file... I am not sure of the cobbler mirroring > internals, but I wonder if the repodata is out of sync with the reposit ory > contents somehow? > Sorry to reply to myself again, but it seems that this file is missing fr om the cobbler mirror of x86_64 but not i386. The cobbler mirror is created using rsync, and so I wonder if this is another manifestation of the prob lem with hardlinked files that Hubert previously uncovered. Cobbler only uses the -a rsync flag when creating, which does not use -H (which would preserve hardlinks). I haven't yet worked out if this is a b ug with cobbler, or a problem with the SL repos...? Cheers, Jonathan