Philip Mather wrote: % That occurred to me as well after I fluffed naming some CentOS channels the % first time around, my conclusion was a set of prepared scripts to % automatically build a number of commonly used channels, obvious choices % would be RHEL, CentOS, Fedora and spacewalk itself. Other candidates could % be http://rpmfusion.org/, VMWare.. any others? % % It'd be nice if the scripts offered to do everything required like adding % crontab entries to update them and added errata scripts with some sort of % option system to select architectures, update schedule, download to local % system first or suck straight from remote etc. One problem might be causing % everyone to hit the same repositories at the same time, might need some % randomization. % % Should this be a shell script or part of the HTTP GUI? If it's the first I % can program in Bash all day long, hell I can also program in Python but I % wouldn't exactly describe myself as a particularly big fan. % It'd give people somewhere to start and a common channel base. Shall I knock % together a page under something like % Features/CommonChannelConstructor/Proposal?
I made something similar for Spacewalk 0.8 release tests; so I added my script to spacewalk-utils package in nightly repo as 'spacewalk-common-channels'. So install spacewalk-utils-0.9.4 and give it a try ;). Comments/patches are welcome. ... % > % > I'd like to see a RHEL channel naming standard in Spacewalk. % > % > For RHEL content, we can't use the same channel names as Satellite % > server does. This leads to the community having a wide array of names % > for RHEL channels. This is problematic for scripts such as % > rhn-clone-errata where everyone effectively has their own copy as they % > need to modify it to match their channel names. It's a real pity that % > this restriction is in place. Regards, -- Michael Mráka Satellite Engineering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
