[Ovirt-devel] cobbler import of a repo with only noarch packages in it

[Perry Myers]

I'm trying to do a cobbler import of a directory structure that only has 
noarch packages in it.  I'm using the import to create a minimal pxe boot 
environment without needing to mirror all of the packages (we just use 
external repos for the packages)

However, when I try to do a cobbler import of a directory structure that 
only contains noarch packages I get the following error:
> + cobbler import --name=Fedora-10 --arch=x86_64 --path=/var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/Fedora-10-x86_64
> sending incremental file list
> 
> sent 392 bytes  received 16 bytes  816.00 bytes/sec
> total size is 134808812  speedup is 330413.75
> Given arch (x86_64) not found on imported tree /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/Fedora-10-x86_64/Packages
> 
> - rsync -a  '/var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/Fedora-10-x86_64/' /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/Fedora-10-x86_64 --exclude-from=/etc/cobbler/rsync.exclude --progress
> ---------------- (adding distros)
> - found content (breed=redhat) at /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/Fedora-10-x86_64/images/pxeboot

I know in the past we were able to import a directory structure with only 
noarch packages and still specify an arch (x86_64 or i386) and it didn't 
fail like above.  Is this a recent change or restriction?  Should we just 
add a single arch specific package to the directory structure to get 
around this?

Thanks,

Perry

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