[Pulp-list] N00b: Pulp and Cobbler ?

[Greg Swift]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 20:40, Dan White <ygor at comcast.net> wrote:

> On Oct 26, 2011, at 8:36 PM, Greg Swift wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 19:06, Dan White <ygor at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> So, if I understand the patterns (I'm new to using producer/consumer
>> patterns),
>> I set up a Pulp Server to manage the mirror-repositories (producer)
>> and point the Cobbler Server at them (as a client/consumer) and let
>> Cobbler feed out the RPM's to the cobbler-ized client-hosts.
>>
>
> You can actually have Cobbler do pass through repositories to pulp if you
> uncheck 'mirror locally' under advanced (I believe that is the right
> option).
>
>
>> This sounds very do-able !
>>
>> I have a repo on my Cobbler server of RPM's that are not from another
>> repo, so I have to run "createrepo" manually whenever I update the
>> collection.  The client-hosts connecting thru Cobbler pick up the changes.
>>
>> OK, one more question: I'm using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.  Can I still
>> register these client-hosts with Red Hat Network ?  I recently encountered a
>> problem with Cobbler-generated yum mirror-repositories and the
>> yum-rhn-plugin not playing nice together.
>>
>
> I use cobbler+rhn regularly and haven't seen any issues.  feel free to
> bring this up in #cobbler on freenode or on the cobbler list.
>
>
> I have brought it up on the cobbler list (not dev) <
> http://www.mail-archive.com/cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org/msg06621.html>
> and did not get any helpful information, and no one is active on the IRC
> every time I have tried -- #cobbler Right ?  Is there a #cobbler-dev ?
>
>
heh.. oops.. i did not remember there was a user list... maybe i should join
that one too...

channel varies the times i've been in there
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