There were no replies to this, so I went into the wilderness...
To recap, my goal was to find a programmatic method to associate a repository
to a channel. The challenge that drove this was to deploy a current Spacewalk
environment, but replicate software channels from the old environment. The
code to create channels and repos is centered around invocations of "spacecmd"
(verbs "softwarechannel_create" and "repo_create"), but there is no verb in the
CLI for associating a repository to a channel.
The following bash function is called out, with arguments of the channel and
repository names, and directly engages PostgreSQL to insert a relationship:
# $1 = channel
# $2 = repo
fn_bind_repo ()
{
psql -U [postgres_user] -h [postgres_server] <<FIN
insert into rhnchannelcontentsource ( channel_id, source_id )
select rhnchannel.id, rhncontentsource.id from rhnchannel,
rhncontentsource where rhnchannel.label = '$1' and rhncontentsource.label =
'$2';
FIN
return $?
}
If there *is* a "spacecmd" verb or API call that accomplishes this, then my
apologies for going off the beaten path. Otherwise, would this be a base for
an RFE to add verbs to the CLI/API functionality?
Best Regards,
Michael Snyder
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Snyder
Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 12:32 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Channel/repository Relationship
Greetings!
I am working on an upgrade from Spacewalk 1.8 to 2.0, and have found an
interesting challenge in the process. One of the goals is to populate the new
system repositories from the old system, and to uniformly establish distinct
repositories which are then referenced by the channels.
"spacecmd" has been instrumental in providing data from the old system useful
for creating the existing channels, and I have also successfully established
matching repositories for the channels. Some examples for the channel and repo
creations, as driven through scripting on both ends with "spacecmd":
- spacecmd "softwarechannel_create -n centos6-base-x86_64 -l
legacy-centos6-base-x86_64 -a x86_64"
- spacecmd "repo_create -n centos6-base-x86_64-repo -u
http://[old_spacewalk_server]/ks/dist/centos6-base-x86_64";
The one detail that I can't seem to solve is registering/relating the
repository to the channel. I have not found any spacecmd verb that corresponds
to something like:
- spacecmd "softwarechannel_addrepo -r centos6-base-x86_64-repo
centos6-base-x86_64"
- spacecmd "softwarechannel_addrepo -r [repo_name] channel_name" #to be more
generic ...
(and of course, proposing an "add" verb implies that a "delete" counterpart
should exist)
Have I missed this functionality expressed with a different verb? Can this be
done in a programmatic way?
Best Regards,
Michael Snyder
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