If you have RHN access with enough system entitlements and want to sync RHEL content, you should look at the "mrepo" utility. This will allow you to pull down RHEL content from RHN from which you can create yum repos. You can then sync your Spacewalk channels with these repos.
It's rather roundabout....but it works. Good luck. Andy Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -----Original Message----- From: Robert Kuropkat <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:51:26 To: [email protected]<[email protected]> Subject: [Spacewalk-list] Initial load of Red Hat channel...? I seem to be missing something obvious. I've installed Red Hat 5.2 (in a VirtualBox VM) and installed Spacewalk. Now I need to create my first channel. I downloaded Red Hat 5.2 and copied the ISO to the file system and tried: satellite-sync --list-channels --mount-point /var/rhn-sat-import/rhel It fails saying it is unable to process file /var/rhn-sat-import/rhel/channel_families/channel_families.xml Sure enough, that file is not there. I read the documentation on how to get the channel iso but it only gives me an iso without the channel information. The documentation does not seem to exactly describe the web ui navigation through the RHN web site so I'm not sure if the documentation is slightly out of date and I am guessing wrong, or if there is some other detail I am missing. I do also see the URL for repo sync in Spacewalk, but don't understand what the URL should be for Red hat version 5.2. I put in this: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/ And it said repository sync scheduled, but I see no evidence it actually did anything... okay wait, before I hit send I went and looked again and it does look like it did something, just not what I wanted it to. So maybe the URL above is just incorrect? How do I setup a local Red Hat 5.2 repo? Any help appreciated. Robert Kuropkat _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
