Hi Paul, Spacewalk 1.8 deprecated the api call distchannel.setDefaultMap - how we do this with 1.8 - if you know?
Thanks ilya -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Robert Marino Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 11:23 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Can't register RHEL5 host with 'spacewalk default' key officially spacewalk 1.7 didn't have that capability however I did write a script to make it work note it does work correctly in 1.8 without my script. one of the major differences between what my script does and what the new version does is when i wrote my script the table wasn't organization aware so all mappings were global that has changes in 1.8 which is a good thing. there were also some other odd bugs I ran into while rebuilding hosts see the ticket here https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=809936 here is the URL to the script on github https://github.com/prmarino1/Extravehicular-Activity-Admin/blob/master/channel-managment/eva-dist-channel-map.pl all things said and done I highly suggest you move to version 1.8 even though its new the number of thing that were known to be broken in 1.7 that were fixed in 1.8 makes it worth it. On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Jan Pazdziora <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 03:57:43PM +0000, Snyder, Chris wrote: >> I'm using Spacewalk 1.7 (1.8 is too new to try yet, going to let the bugs >> shake out a bit first) and I want to be able to kickstart a RHEL 5 x86_64 >> host and have it automatically registered to the appropriate base channel ( >> and spacewalk client child channel) using the 'Spacewalk Default' key. >> However, rhnreg_ks always fails to register my new host to ANY channels when >> I try this. As far as I can tell I'm doing everything right, but >> obviously I've missed something. I've been arguing with SW for over two >> weeks trying to solve this and my head is going in circles now. Somebody >> please save me! >> > > Your staying on old version of Spacewalk prevents you from using new > feature in Spacewalk 1.8 which would allow you to edit the mapping and > see it working. > > -- > Jan Pazdziora > Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat > > _______________________________________________ > 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
