On 15 March 2011 19:48, Troy Dawson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/15/2011 02:28 PM, Matthew Willsher wrote: > >> On 12 Mar 2011, at 22:24, Matthew Willsher wrote: >> >> I've been having some fun with Spacewalk and have been trying to get >>> errata to get correctly marked in the errata view automagically. Having done >>> some searching around I've found some references that seem to indicate that >>> it can be made to work with SL somehow. Is there any way to get the errata >>> working with SL? >>> >> >> I just wanted to check this again before I start doing some scripting to >> attempt to parse the errata mailing list archive. Anything would be helpful, >> no matter how rough. >> >
> Hi Matt, > Hi Troy, > Sorry for not replying. > No problem - I'm not in any rush :) > There are two ways of doing this. > > 1 - simple and easy, no real descriptions, just marking packages as > security or fastbugs. > That should be easy enough by going through the SL yum repo's. > This is the approach I'll use I think. I'll see if I can come up with something that parse the rhn.redhat.com/errata list, which is public, and cross reference that to the SL errata mailing list perhaps. Or I might just do it manually :) > 2 - Having all the detail for each errata. > For that you need to have a current RHEL machine and an account on rhn. > You download the errata metadata, convert it to whatever you want (if it's > your personal spacewalk, I suspect you don't need to convert much) and then > push it up onto your spacewalk server. > I was giving option 2 some serious consideration but it appears to fall foul of the RH license agreement, in particular the Appendix 1, Paragraph 1: Any unauthorized use of the Subscription Services is a material breach of the Agreement, such as [...] (e) using Subscription Services to support or maintain any non-Red Hat Software products. It does go on to say 'For the purposes of this paragraph (for example, in calculating the total number of Units of Software), Software would include versions or copies that have the Red Hat trademark(s) and/or logo file(s) removed'. I don't know if SL, CentOS etc class as a 'version or copy' of RHEL in this context. Even if it does it it means that if I were to use 2. I would need an additional subscription for that purpose, and then quite likely need a further subscription with RHEL for every other instance of SL using that data. The usual disclaimer applies - I am not a lawyer. Kind regards, Matt
