I didn't like mrepo as: a) I didn't find it at all intuitive b) unless you do some fancy scripting you end up all the RHEL (and/or EPEL) content twice on your filesystem
CC On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Robert Kuropkat <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 > -- RHCE#805007969328369 _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
