Look into rhnget and gensystemid from the mrepo package.
You can use that to sync the rhel rpms locally, then use rhnpush to import into spacewalk. ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Sent: Mon Nov 23 21:37:40 2009 Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Initial load of Red Hat channel...? yea, in the little reading I recall on it, I gave it a confused dog look and just hoped I did not really need that. So I'll look a little harder at it unless this other thing actually works accidentally. But it sounds like even though I am getting nearly 4,000 packages it is still only part of what I need. Thanks for the info... Colin Coe wrote: > 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 >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ 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
