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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Nick,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> Did you run the gensystemid command? If so, where does the systemid file reside?
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">You should have a separate ID for each version and architecture that you want to download.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I created 4 IDs. They reside in the base (source) directories where mrepo stores the RPMs for each version/architecture.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">/clonefs/6Server-i386/systemid<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">/clonefs/6Server-x86_64/systemid<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">/clonefs/5Server-i386/systemid<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">/clonefs/5Server-x86_64/systemid<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">In my mrepo.conf file, /clonefs is the srcdir= location and the 6Server-i386, 6Server-x86_64, etc, equate to the sections headers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">From my config file:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">[5Server-x86_64]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">name = Red Hat Enterprise Server ($release) ($arch)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">release = 5<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">arch = x86_64<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">metadata = repomd repoview<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">iso = /clonefs/5Server-x86_64/rhel-server-5.7-x86_64-dvd.iso<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">[5Server-i386]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">name = Red Hat Enterprise Server ($release) ($arch)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">release = 5<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">arch = i386
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">metadata = repomd repoview<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">iso = /clonefs/5Server-i386/rhel-server-5.7-i386-dvd.iso<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">[6Server-x86_64]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">name = Red Hat Enterprise Server ($release) ($arch)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">release = 6<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">arch = x86_64<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">metadata = repomd repoview<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">iso = /clonefs/6Server-x86_64/rhel-server-6.0-x86_64-dvd.iso<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">[6Server-i386]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">name = Red Hat Enterprise Server ($release) ($arch)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">release = 6<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">arch = i386
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">metadata = repomd repoview<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">iso = /clonefs/6Server-386/rhel-server-6.0-i386-dvd.iso<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Alan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> fnwsa@yahoo.com [mailto:fnwsa@yahoo.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 03, 2012 3:36 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Alan Pittman; 'spacewalk-list@redhat.com'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Spacewalk-list] Repository URL?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Alan,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Thank you again for your help!<br>
I have done mrepo configuration, but failed at 'mrepo -uvvv' with lots of errors like:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">AttributeError: SafeTransport instance has no attribute '_use_datetime'<br>
mrepo: Mirroring failed for rhns:///rhel-i386-server-vt-5 with message:<br>
Failed with return code: 256<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">It looks like a datetime issue.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black"># date<br>
Fri Aug 3 15:27:10 EDT 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black"># rpm -q rhpl<br>
rhpl-0.221-2.el6.rf.x86_64<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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I've googled a lot but haven't found a solution yet. Any help will be greatly appreciated!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><span style="color:black">nz<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> Alan Pittman <<a href="mailto:Alan.Pittman@publix.com">Alan.Pittman@publix.com</a>><br>
<b>To:</b> "'fnwsa@yahoo.com'" <<a href="mailto:fnwsa@yahoo.com">fnwsa@yahoo.com</a>>; "'spacewalk-list@redhat.com'" <<a href="mailto:spacewalk-list@redhat.com">spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a>>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 3, 2012 9:24:43 AM<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [Spacewalk-list] Repository URL?</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Nick,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black"> Unfortunately, Spacewalk won’t/can’t connect to RHN. What mrepo will do is connect(logon) to RHN and pull all of the RPMs and place them in a series on directories. With the appropriate
options, mrepo will then create a local repository which then can be used to populate the Spacewalk database.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Follow the steps to install mrepo (if you haven’t already) and run the gensystemid script (should be one of the steps in the install doc). Once that’s done, you’ll have
to create or update the mrepo.conf file. Here’s a portion of mine so that you have an idea what to configure:</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">root@taeps001 etc]# cat ./mrepo.conf</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">### Configuration file for mrepo</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">### The [main] section allows to override mrepo's default settings</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">### The mrepo-example.conf gives an overview of all the possible settings</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">[main]</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">srcdir = /clonefs
</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">wwwdir = /var/www/mrepo</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">confdir = /etc/mrepo.conf.d</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">arch = i386 x86_64</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">mailto = root@localhost</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">smtp-server = localhost</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">rhnlogin = <rhnuserid>:<rhnpassword></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">### Any other section is considered a definition for a distribution</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">### You can put distribution sections in /etc/mrepo.conf.d/</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">### Examples can be found in the documentation at:</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">### /usr/share/doc/mrepo-0.8.7/dists/.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">[5Server-x86_64]</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">name = Red Hat Enterprise Server ($release) ($arch)</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">release = 5</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">arch = x86_64</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">metadata = repomd repoview</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">iso = /clonefs/5Server-x86_64/rhel-server-5.7-x86_64-dvd.iso</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">### Additional repositories</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">updates = rhns:///rhel-$arch-server-5</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"># vt = rhns:///rhel-$arch-server-$repo-5</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">supplementary = rhns:///rhel-$arch-server-$repo-5</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"># fastrack = rhns:///rhel-$arch-server-$repo-5</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"># hts = rhns:///rhel-$arch-server-$repo-5</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">rhn-tools = rhns:///$repo-rhel-$arch-server-5</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">### RPMforge repository</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"># rpmforge = rsync://apt.sw.be/pub/freshrpms/pub/dag/redhat/el$release/en/$arch/RPMS.dag/</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">#rpmforge =
<a href="ftp://apt.sw.be/pub/dag/pub/redhat/el$release/en/$arch/RPMS.dag/">ftp://apt.sw.be/pub/dag/pub/redhat/el$release/en/$arch/RPMS.dag/</a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">rpmforge =
<a href="http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$release/en/$arch/RPMS.dag/">http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$release/en/$arch/RPMS.dag/</a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">### EPEL repository</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"># EPEL =
<a href="http://mirror.chpc.utah.edu/pub/epel/$release/$arch/">http://mirror.chpc.utah.edu/pub/epel/$release/$arch/</a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">EPEL =
<a href="http://mirror.metrocast.net/fedora/epel/5/x86_64/">http://mirror.metrocast.net/fedora/epel/5/x86_64/</a>
</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">### ELrepo repository</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">elrepo =
<a href="http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el5/$arch/">http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el5/$arch/</a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">#elrepo-testing =
<a href="http://elrepo.org/linux/testing/el5/$arch/">http://elrepo.org/linux/testing/el5/$arch/</a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">### OpenVZ repositories</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">#ovzkernel =
<a href="http://download.openvz.org/kernel/rhel5/">http://download.openvz.org/kernel/rhel5/</a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">#ovztemplate =
<a href="http://download.openvz.org/template/">http://download.openvz.org/template/</a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">#ovzutils =
<a href="http://download.openvz.org/utils/">http://download.openvz.org/utils/</a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">### Fedora EPEL packages (incompatible with RPMforge)</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">#epel =
<a href="http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/$release/$arch/">http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/$release/$arch/</a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">### Custom repository for your own RPM packages</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">mondo =
<a href="http://www.mondorescue.org/ftp/rhel/5/x86_64">http://www.mondorescue.org/ftp/rhel/5/x86_64</a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">spacewalk =
<a href="http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.7/RHEL/5/x86_64">http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.7/RHEL/5/x86_64</a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">
<a href="mailto:fnwsa@yahoo.com">fnwsa@yahoo.com</a> [<a href="mailto:fnwsa@yahoo.com">mailto:fnwsa@yahoo.com</a>]
<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 03, 2012 9:07 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Alan Pittman; 'spacewalk-list@redhat.com'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Spacewalk-list] Repository URL?</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Hi Alan,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Thank you very much for your very helpful reply!!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">My purpose is to patch all of our RHEL5x/6x systems, so I need to "</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">connect to RHN and download all of the available RPMS and populate
your Spacewalk repository</span><span style="color:black">" as you said. Please correct me if I am wrong here.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">I've just installed mrepo, but still don't understand the whole picture. With mrepor's help, can Spacewalk connect directly to the RHN servers? What URL should be used in the Repository
URL? Yes, I have RHN userid and password.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Have a nice day!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Nick<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> Alan Pittman <<a href="mailto:Alan.Pittman@publix.com" target="_blank">Alan.Pittman@publix.com</a>><br>
<b>To:</b> "'fnwsa@yahoo.com'" <<a href="mailto:fnwsa@yahoo.com" target="_blank">fnwsa@yahoo.com</a>>; "'spacewalk-list@redhat.com'" <<a href="mailto:spacewalk-list@redhat.com" target="_blank">spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a>>
<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, August 2, 2012 9:42:35 PM<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [Spacewalk-list] Repository URL?</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Nick,</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> When I click on the link, the browser takes me to the repodata sub-directory. When I tried backing up a couple of levels, I never saw any RPMs.
</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Can I assume that you want to connect to RHN and download all of the available RPMS and populate your Spacewalk repository? If so, you’ll have to download and install
a utility called mrepo because Spacewalk doesn’t have the ability to connect directly to the RHN servers.
</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Also, must also have a valid RHN userid and password for mrepo to connect.
</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">aep</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">
<a href="mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com" target="_blank">spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com</a> [<a href="mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com" target="_blank">mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b><a href="mailto:fnwsa@yahoo.com" target="_blank">fnwsa@yahoo.com</a><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, August 02, 2012 5:01 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:spacewalk-list@redhat.com" target="_blank">spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Spacewalk-list] Repository URL?</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Hi, I am now trying to create my first Repository for RHEL 6 (64bit) systems. Can I use the following link as Repository URL in Spacewalk's Create New Repository page?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Server/en/os/x86_64/Debuginfo/repodata/" target="_blank">ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Server/en/os/x86_64/Debuginfo/repodata/</a><br>
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If it's not the right one, where can I find it?<br>
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Thank you in advance!<br>
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