hmmm... Well that makes a little more sense I guess. I think it did/is
syncing the epel repo, which is of course not what I wanted but would
imply that process would work if I can dredge up the correct url.
I did see something about spacewalk-repo-sync but I think that requires
a URL as well, not local media.
I do seem to have a sync process running, so I am not sure if it is
because I clicked on the sync button multiple times or what. Nothing is
showing up in the Schedule tab in Space walk under pending, failed,
completed or archived so I don't really understand what state this
process is in. There is a /var/log/rhn/rhn_taskomatic_daemon.log file
that is showing a lot of hibernate and java null pointer errors so that
does not seem promising.
Actually, it looks like something might be happening now, I might have
just been impatient. There is now file in /var/log/rhn/reposync that is
growing and shoes 754/3817.... and my little VM has gotten sluggish as
hell. So maybe it is downloading everything for a complete RH 5.2?
Of course, that kinda sucks because I was about to give up and go home.
Now I have to stay and wait it out :-/
Robert
P.S. What is mrepo and what did you not like about it? I thought I saw
that mentioned somewhere in my reading but don't recall now...
Colin Coe wrote:
My understanding is that satellite-sync does not work with Sapcewalk
but I'm not 100% on that.
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/ is the location for
EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux), not for RHEL.
a minute or two after clicking sync repo, do a 'ps -ef | grep sync' to
see if you have any spacewalk-repo-sync processes running. I think
the logs are under /var/satellite/sync_repo or something similar.
I ended up using mrepo to do this but I was less than happy with it.
CC
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Robert Kuropkat
<[email protected]> wrote:
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
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