I still need to look into these packages. Last night I accidentally
imported 3817 packages on accident, not exactly sure what. I guess part
of what is irritating me is the following paragraph from the Satellite
Server Installation guide:
The Red Hat Network Channel Content ISOs or RHN Satellite Exporter data
must be available, or the Satellite must have access to the Internet and
the RHN website.
Although it is possible to conduct the import directly from the RHN
website, this should be done only if Channel Content ISOs are not
available. It takes a long time to populate a channel from scratch over
the Internet. For this reason, Red Hat urges you to use ISOs, if they
are available, for initial import.
So how the hell does one get the "Red hat Network Channel Content
ISOs"? I have a valid RHN login but the iso's I download don't seem to
have the Channel Content info? Or am I just on crack? I mean I try not
to read documentation very often but would appreciate it to be correct
when I do bother... :-)
Robert
[email protected] wrote:
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
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