Bug 81462 - RFE: Tool to aid in storage of kickstart RPMs on satellite servers
Summary: RFE: Tool to aid in storage of kickstart RPMs on satellite servers
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Satellite 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: Server
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
high
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mihai Ibanescu
QA Contact: Fanny Augustin
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Blocks: 88391
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-01-09 17:59 UTC by Greg DeKoenigsberg
Modified: 2007-07-31 19:03 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2003-04-14 16:04:43 UTC
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Description Greg DeKoenigsberg 2003-01-09 17:59:16 UTC
Customers want to use satellite servers as kickstart servers as well.  This is
reasonable.

Unfortunately, RPM duplication and disk space usage becomes a problem.  90% of
the RPMs in a given kickstart file tree will also be in the RPM repository for
the satellite.

To eliminate unnecessary duplication, we should have a de-duping copy function
for RPMs that might work something like this:

$ satcp /mnt/cdrom/filetree/*.rpm /var/www/pub/filetree/*.rpm

Before writing each RPM to disk, satcp would check the satellite repository.  If
an RPM with the same(ish) name and matching MD5sum exists, create a symlink
instead of copying the file.

We would then document the use of this satcp script in the satellite/kickstart
documentation.

Comment 1 Mihai Ibanescu 2003-01-09 21:22:51 UTC
Should be on my plate I guess.

Comment 2 Greg DeKoenigsberg 2003-02-03 14:52:53 UTC
Bumping priority ("provisioning" implications)

Comment 3 Greg DeKoenigsberg 2003-04-11 14:53:02 UTC
RHN 3.0.0

Comment 4 Greg DeKoenigsberg 2003-04-14 16:04:43 UTC
Was apparently decided in my absence that this piece is out.  OK, then, out it
is.  And since this was a "stopgap" feature until we got "real" provisioning, we
should probably close this altogether.


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