On 2012-10-15 15:17, Franky Van Liedekerke wrote:
> Yet another errata clone script ... for CentOS and RedHat > > For CentOS: > - first some shell calls to get the latest announces from the centos archive > (but not by scraping the announces list, but getting digests, much less > traffic then) > You can change the number of announces anyway you want by changing the > wget command to your liking > - then the perl script comes along, parsing the digest files and looking in 1 > channel (yes, one) for package availability and creating the errata there. > It has optional integration with RHN for notes, description, topic info, and > CVE's and/or can use the OVAL file like the errata-import.pl script does. > The created errata gets a suffix based on the OS version and architecture > (e.g. ":C5-64" or "C6-32"), because the same errata can exist for multiple > OS versions and architectures (and creating the errata for more than one > base channel would result in packages being copied which is a mess again). > Also a proxy can be defined for spacewalk and or RHN servers > Or, for RedHat: > - log in to RHN, get the errata for the specified channel > (possibility to define the date range) > - then follow the same logic as for CentOS For the persons interested in using my script: - I confirmed it to be working for RHEL4 (Extended support), RHEL5, RHEL6 errata and for CentOS 5 and 6 (32 and 64bit) - something I forgot to mention in the original mail: proxy support is in there (just not authenticated, but that can be added if wanted) See github for the latest version (some small bugfixes have been made): https://github.com/liedekef/spacewalk_scripts Feedback is greatly appreciated! Franky
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