[Spacewalk-list] spacewalk cobbler issue

[John Hodrien]

On Thu, 25 Feb 2010, Johnny Mirza wrote:

> Thanks Jeffrey, I didn’t’ think to look there.
>
> But I think I found the issue and I am hoping someone has a simple solution.
> It looks like the 10 min delay at the post section is because yum is trying to access the Centos default mirrors (created in the /etc/yum.repos.d/* directory as part of yum). Access will not be allowed because the server is behind a proxy.
>
> Determining fastest mirrors
> Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=x86_64&repo=addons error was
> [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (110, 'Connection timed out')>
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, kmod, rhnplugin
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
> Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=x86_64&repo=addons error was
> [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (110, 'Connection timed out')>
>
> Do you have any idea how to disable this?

There's definitely posts from me on the list, but I've not got spacewalk to
hand on the specifics.  Search back through the lists with google and you'll
find it.  I use a pre script to setup the yum.conf with the
repodir=/etc/yum.repos.d/custom.

jh