You are VERY correct spacewalk-clone-by-date is the way to go. Here is what I’m
using. The script is run out of cron on the first of the month. YMMV
One thing is the error message from the parser is “Configuration file is
invalid, please check syntax.” Not useful at fixing issues.
#! /bin/sh
cd /var/satellite/local-scripts/cloner
MONTH=`/bin/date --date="yesterday" +%B` FDATE=`/bin/date --date="yesterday"
+%F`
LMONTH=`echo $MONTH | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'` CONF_FILE=${MONTH}_freeze.conf
# echo ${MONTH} ${LMONTH} ${FDATE} ${CONF_FILE} # read Foo
cat > $CONF_FILE <<EOF
{
"username": "username",
"password": "password",
"to_date": "${FDATE}",
"assumeyes": true,
"use_update_date": true,
"skip_depsolve": false,
"security_only": false,
"no_errata_sync": false,
"dry_run": false,
"blacklist": {
"ALL": [
""
]
},
"removelist": {
"ALL": [
""
]
},
"channels": [
{
"rhel-x86_64-server-6": {
"label": "${LMONTH}-rhel6-x86_64-server-6",
"name": "${MONTH} freeze of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v.
6 for 64-bit x86_64)",
"summary": "This is the patch cluster for ${MONTH}",
"description": "Automated state freeze for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux for the month of ${MONTH}",
"existing-parent-do-not-modify": false
},
"rhn-tools-rhel-x86_64-server-6": {
"label": "${LMONTH}-rhn-tools-rhel-x86_64-server-6",
"name": "${MONTH} freeze of Red Hat Network Tools for
RHEL Server (v6 64-bit x86)",
"summary": "${MONTH} freeze of Red Hat Network Tools for
RHEL Server (v6 64-bit x86)"
},
"rhel-x86_64-server-6-rhscl-1": {
"label": "${LMONTH}-rhel-x86_64-server-6-rhscl-1",
"name": "${MONTH} freeze of Red Hat
Software Collections 1 (RHEL 6 Server x86_64)",
"summary": "${MONTH} freeze of Red Hat
Software Collections 1 (RHEL 6 Server x86_64)"
},
"rhel-x86_64-server-optional-6": {
"label":
"${LMONTH}-rhel-x86_64-server-optional-6",
"name": "${MONTH} freeze of Red Hat Enterprise
Linux Server Optional (v. 6 64-bit x86_64)",
"summary": "${MONTH} freeze of Red Hat Enterprise
Linux Server Optional (v. 6 64-bit x86_64)"
},
"epel_rhel6_x86_64": {
"label": "${LMONTH}-epel_rhel6_x86_64",
"name": "${MONTH} freeze of EPEL for Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
"summary": "Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 for
${MONTH}"
},
"pgdg93_rhel6_x86_64": {
"label": "${LMONTH}-pgdg93_rhel6_x86_64",
"name": "${MONTH} freeze of PostgreSQL
9.3 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
"summary": "${MONTH} freeze of PostgreSQL
9.3 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6"
},
"puppetlabs-pepackages-6server-x86_64": {
"label": "${LMONTH}-puppetlabs-pepackages-6server-x86_64",
"name": "${MONTH} freeze of Puppet Labs PE Packages for
RHEL 6",
"summary": "${MONTH} freeze of Puppet Labs PE Packages for
RHEL 6"
}
},
{
"rhel-x86_64-server-5": {
"label": "${LMONTH}-freeze-rhel5-x86_64-server-5",
"name": "${MONTH} freeze of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v.
5 for 64-bit x86_64)",
"summary": "This is the patch cluster for ${MONTH}",
"description": "Automated state freeze for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux for the month of ${MONTH}",
"existing-parent-do-not-modify": false
},
"rhn-tools-rhel-x86_64-server-5": {
"label": "${LMONTH}-rhn-tools-rhel-x86_64-server-5",
"name": "${MONTH} freeze of Red Hat Network Tools for
RHEL Server (v5 64-bit x86_64)",
"summary": "${MONTH} freeze of Red Hat Network Tools for
RHEL Server (v5 64-bit x86_64)"
},
"rhel-x86_64-server-supplementary-5": {
"label": "${LMONTH}-rhel-x86_64-server-supplementary-5",
"name": "${MONTH} freeze of RHEL Supplementary (v. 5 for
64-bit x86_64)",
"summary": "${MONTH} freeze of RHEL Supplementary (v. 5 for
64-bit x86_64)"
}
},
{
"rhel-i386-server-5": {
"label": "${LMONTH}-freeze-rhel5-i386-server-5",
"name": "${MONTH} freeze of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v.
5 for 32-bit i386)",
"summary": "This is the patch cluster for ${MONTH}",
"description": "Automated state freeze for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux for the month of ${MONTH}",
"existing-parent-do-not-modify": false
},
"rhn-tools-rhel-i386-server-5": {
"label": "${LMONTH}-rhn-tools-rhel-i386-server-5",
"name": "${MONTH} freeze of Red Hat Network Tools for
RHEL Server (v5 32-bit x86)",
"summary": "${MONTH} freeze of Red Hat Network Tools for
RHEL Server (v5 32-bit x86)"
},
"rhel-i386-server-supplementary-5": {
"label": "${LMONTH}-rhel-i386-server-supplementary-5",
"name": "${MONTH} freeze of RHEL Supplementary (v. 5 for
32-bit x86)",
"summary": "${MONTH} freeze of RHEL Supplementary (v. 5 for
32-bit x86)"
}
},
{
"rhel-x86_64-server-7": {
"label": "${LMONTH}-rhel7-x86_64-server-7",
"name": "${MONTH} freeze of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v.
7 for 64-bit x86_64)",
"summary": "This is the patch cluster for ${MONTH}",
"description": "Automated state freeze for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux for the month of ${MONTH}",
"existing-parent-do-not-modify": false
},
"rhn-tools-rhel-x86_64-server-7": {
"label": "${LMONTH}-rhn-tools-rhel-x86_64-server-7",
"name": "${MONTH} freeze of Red Hat Network Tools for
RHEL Server (v7 64-bit x86)",
"summary": "${MONTH} freeze of Red Hat Network Tools for
RHEL Server (v7 64-bit x86)"
},
"rhel-x86_64-server-7-rhscl-1": {
"label": "${LMONTH}-rhel-x86_64-server-7-rhscl-1",
"name": "${MONTH} freeze of Red Hat
Software Collections 1 (RHEL 7 Server x86_64)",
"summary": "${MONTH} freeze of Red Hat
Software Collections 1 (RHEL 7 Server x86_64)"
},
"rhel-x86_64-server-optional-7": {
"label":
"${LMONTH}-rhel-x86_64-server-optional-7",
"name": "${MONTH} freeze of Red Hat Enterprise
Linux Server Optional (v. 7 64-bit x86_64)",
"summary": "${MONTH} freeze of Red Hat Enterprise
Linux Server Optional (v. 7 64-bit x86_64)"
},
"rhel-x86_64-server-extras-7": {
"label": "${LMONTH}-rhel-x86_64-server-extras-7",
"name": "${MONTH} freeze of RHEL Server Extras (v. 7 for
64-bit x86_64)",
"summary": "${MONTH} freeze of RHEL Server Extras (v. 7 for
64-bit x86_64)"
},
"rhel-x86_64-server-supplementary-7": {
"label": "${LMONTH}-rhel-x86_64-server-supplementary-7",
"name": "${MONTH} RHEL Server Supplementary (v. 7 for
64-bit x86_64)",
"summary": "${MONTH} RHEL Server Supplementary (v. 7 for
64-bit x86_64)"
},
"epel_rhel7_x86_64": {
"label": "${LMONTH}-epel_rhel7_x86_64",
"name": "${MONTH} freeze of EPEL for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 7",
"summary": "Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 7 for
${MONTH}"
},
"pgdg93_rhel7_x86_64": {
"label": "${LMONTH}-pgdg93_rhel7_x86_64",
"name": "${MONTH} freeze of PostgreSQL 9.3 for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7",
"summary": "${MONTH} freeze of PostgreSQL 9.3 for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7"
},
"puppetlabs-pepackages-7server-x86_64": {
"label": "${LMONTH}-puppetlabs-pepackages-7server-x86_64",
"name": "${MONTH} freeze of Puppet Labs PE Packages for
RHEL 7",
"summary": "${MONTH} freeze of Puppet Labs PE Packages for
RHEL 7"
}
}
]
}
EOF
/usr/bin/spacewalk-clone-by-date --config=${CONF_FILE} && rm -f ${CONF_FILE}
Regards,
Darryl
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Waldirio Manhães
Pinheiro
Sent: Friday, May 29, 2015 12:02 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Cloning channel from script
Hello All
Darryl, my recommendation is use spacewalk-clone-by-date, you have two ways,
the first one is define all parameters in a single line "beautiful", the second
and I really prefer, is create a template, you will execute the command
spacewalk-clone-by-date using the flag -m
###
-m --sample-config
Generate a sample configuration file
###
So you will define all that you would like in your channels (base, child,
dates, etc) and execute the command again with flag -c
###
-c FILE, --config=FILE
Configuration file holding parameters, see --sample-config for an example.Any
command-line parameters override those in specified config file.
###
Enjoy
Take Care
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On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Matt Micene
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
That’s the expected behavior of the spacewalk-create-channel tool as far as I
can tell. The tool reads files in /usr/share/rhn/channel_data to determine the
RPM list that was create at issue date of a particular release (RHEL 6 Update 6
for example). The tool will only work on channels that were on the
distribution ISO and it looks like there’s some hidden syntactic sugar as well
(from my local testing). So you get only the package published at the time of
release, no updates.
If you want to clone a channel and all the errata, you’re probably better off
looking at spacewalk-clone-by-date. You can provide a date to clone errata up
to, and you can clone channels that aren’t part of the ISO (like rhn-tools).
The syntax is pretty simple spacewalk-clone-by-date –l RHT-channel my-channel
–d DATE is the basics, and you can automate it with a config file (-m will
print a sample file). I wrote about using the tool for work:
http://blogs.dlt.com/content-workflow-rhn-satellite/
HTH,
Matt
Matt Micene
DLT Solutions
Solution Architect
RHCA# 100-002-435
Direct 703-773-1195
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[mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>]
On Behalf Of Darryl Baker
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 3:24 PM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Cloning channel from script
I’ve been playing a bit with the spacewalk-create-channel command. Two things
I’ve noticed:
You must specify the update level and there is no way that I can find to just
select the “latest update.”
Then once I make the clone the GUI shows no errata in the new channel whereas
when I make the clone through the RHSS console the channel has a list of them.
I would like to just say the latest update and see the errata attached to the
clone. Anyone have any thoughts?
Regards,
Darryl
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[mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>]
On Behalf Of Darryl Baker
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 9:12 AM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Cloning channel from script
I’m only doing a few hundred machines at the moment but we are growing fast.
Scripts to modify the channels systems are using as well as making the channel
clones would be great. Thank you for offering. If You would post the collection
to GitHub, please.
Regards,
Darryl
From:
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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Franky Van Liedekerke
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 1:04 AM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Cloning channel from script
I have several perl scripts that do all that: create new cloned channels,
subscribe servers to the new channels, update kickstart profiles and activation
keys.
Even a extra web interface in php and perl crontab to manage the patching of
thousands of servers via spacewalk.
If interested, I can put them on github ...
Franky
Darryl Baker
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> schreef op
11 mei 2015 17:08:53 CEST:
I’m using Red Hat Satellite 5.7. Each month I clone the distribution channels
so I can have sets of machines at the identical patch level and those patches
can be worked through the testing cycle before being applied in production.
Currently I am doing this manually through the GUI. A mindless, time consuming
thing. I would like to set up scripts to do this for me. Any clues on how to do
this will be much appreciated.
Regards,
Darryl Baker
Textura Corporation
Linux Engineer Application Support
1405 Lake Cook Road
Deerfield, Illinois 60015
Office Phone - 847-235-8467
Email – [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
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