<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Robert, Alan, Thank you for your replies.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Based on Rober's finding, I've moved the rpclib.py and got new result or error:</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span># cp -p /usr/share/mrepo/rhn/rpclib.py /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rhn/rpclib.py<br># gensystemid -u userid -p password --release=5Server --arch=i386 /var/mrepo<br></span></div><div><span></span><span><br></span></div><div><span>gensystemid: Error registering system.<br>Error Message: Insufficient Software Channel Entitlements:<br>cfid5488 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (core server)<br>note: One of the above Software Channel Entitlement(s) are required to provides access to: cid6949 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 for 32-bit x86)<br>Error Class Code: 70<br>Error Class Info:<br>All available subscriptions for the requested channel have been exhausted. Please contact a Red Hat Network Sales associate.<br>Explanation:<br>An error has occurred while processing your request. If this problem persists please enter a bug report at bugzilla.redhat.com. If you choose to submit the bug report, please be sure to include details of what you were trying to do when this error occurred </span><span>and details on how to reproduce this problem.</span></div><div> </div><div>nz<br><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> "Boyd, Robert" <Robert.Boyd@peoplefluent.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "spacewalk-list@redhat.com" <spacewalk-list@redhat.com>; Alan Pittman <Alan.Pittman@publix.com>; "'fnwsa@yahoo.com'" <fnwsa@yahoo.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, August 6, 2012 5:52:08 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> RE: [Spacewalk-list] mrepo / gensystemid errors<br> </font> </div> <br><div id="yiv954737428"><style></style><div><div class="yiv954737428WordSection1"><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">I found one answer to my question. There is a handy tool called dumpObj that you can copy from </span><span style="font-family:"sans-serif";"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://code.activestate.com/recipes/137951-dump-all-the-attributes-of-an-object/">http://code.activestate.com/recipes/137951-dump-all-the-attributes-of-an-object/</a></span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"sans-serif";"> </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"sans-serif";">So I copied it and inserted it into gensystemid on both servers. Here is the key thing I see that is different:</span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"sans-serif";"> </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"sans-serif";">On the server where gensystemid fails (RHEL6.3) :</span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"sans-serif";"> </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"sans-serif";">__file__ /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rhn/rpclib.pyc</span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"sans-serif";"> __name__ rhn.rpclib</span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"sans-serif";"> __package__ rhn</span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"sans-serif";"> __version__ $Revision$</span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"sans-serif";"> </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"sans-serif";">With sys.path: ['/root', '/usr/lib64/python26.zip', '/usr/lib64/python2.6', '/usr/lib64/python2.6/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib64/python2.6/lib-tk', '/usr/lib64/python2.6/lib-old', '/usr/lib64/python2.6/lib-dynload', '/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages', '/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/gst-0.10', '/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/gtk-2.0', '/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/webkit-1.0', '/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages', '/usr/share/mrepo/', '/usr/share/mrepo/up2date_client/', '/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg-info']</span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"sans-serif";"> </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"sans-serif";">On the RHEL 5.8 server where it works:</span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"sans-serif";"> </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"sans-serif";">__file__ /usr/share/mrepo/rhn/rpclib.pyc</span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"sans-serif";"> __name__ rhn.rpclib</span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"sans-serif";"> __version__ $Revision: 118741 $</span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"sans-serif";"> </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"sans-serif";">sys.path: ['/root', '/usr/lib64/python24.zip', '/usr/lib64/python2.4', '/usr/lib64/python2.4/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib64/python2.4/lib-tk', '/usr/lib64/python2.4/lib-dynload', '/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages', '/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/Numeric', '/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0', '/usr/share/mrepo/', '/usr/share/mrepo/up2date_client/', '/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages']</span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"sans-serif";"> </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"sans-serif";">So on the failing configuration somehow it’s not finding the module which is clearly there. I checked. </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"sans-serif";"> </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"sans-serif";">Is there something wrong with the new search order? I see that there are many differences in these 2 lists. Anyone have a suggestion about what needs to be changed on the RHEL 6.3/Python 2.6 configuration to get the right module found?</span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Robert</span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"> spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Boyd, Robert<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 06, 2012 5:19 PM<br><b>To:</b> Alan Pittman; 'fnwsa@yahoo.com'; 'spacewalk-list@redhat.com'<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Spacewalk-list] mrepo / gensystemid errors</span></div></div></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">I use the exact same RHN credentials. On my RHEL 5.8 server they work just fine. On my RHEL 6.3 server I get the errors mentioned before.</span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">On my RHEL 5.8 spacewalk server:</span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">mrepo.noarch 0.8.8-0.pre1.el5.rft installed </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">rhn-check.noarch 1.7.14-1.el5 installed </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">rhn-client-tools.noarch 1.7.14-1.el5 installed </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">rhn-setup.noarch 1.7.14-1.el5 installed </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">rhn-setup-gnome.noarch 1.7.14-1.el5 installed </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">rhnlib.noarch 2.5.51-1.el5 installed </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">rhnpush.noarch 5.5.42-1.el5 installed </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">rhnsd.x86_64 4.9.15-1.el5 installed </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">python.x86_64 2.4.3-46.el5_8.2 installed</span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">On my RHEL 6.3 server I have this:</span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">mrepo.noarch 0.8.8-0.pre1.el6.rft @rpmforge-testing </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">rhn-check.noarch 1.7.14-1.el6 @spacewalk </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">rhn-client-tools.noarch 1.7.14-1.el6 @spacewalk </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">rhn-setup.noarch 1.7.14-1.el6 @spacewalk </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">rhn-setup-gnome.noarch 1.7.14-1.el6 @spacewalk </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">rhnlib.noarch 2.5.51-1.el6 @spacewalk </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">rhnpush.noarch 5.5.42-1.el6 @spacewalk </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">rhnsd.x86_64 4.9.3-2.el6 @anaconda-RedHatEnterpriseLinux-201206132210.x86_64/6.3</span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">python.x86_64 2.6.6-29.el6_2.2 @anaconda-RedHatEnterpriseLinux-201206132210.x86_64/6.3</span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">In this list the only real difference seems to be the python and rhnsd packages. </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">I tried printing out the directory of the rpclib attributes on my RHEL 5.8 server and I get this list:</span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">rpclib attributes: ['Fault', 'File', 'GETServer', 'InvalidRedirectionError', 'ListType', 'MAX_REDIRECTIONS', 'ProtocolError', 'RangeError', 'ResponseError', 'Server', 'SlicingMethod', 'TupleType', 'UserDictCase', '_Method', '__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__name__', '__version__', 'getHeaderValues', 'get_proxy_info', 'getparser', 'reportError', 'send_handler', 'split_host', 'string', 'transports', 'urllib', 'xmlrpclib']</span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">This is clearly a different list from the other one:</span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">rpclib attributes: ['DictType', 'DictionaryType', 'GETServer', 'InvalidRedirectionError', 'ListType', 'MAX_REDIRECTIONS', 'MalformedURIError', 'RangeError', 'Server', 'SlicingMethod', 'StringType', 'TupleType', 'UnicodeType', 'UserDictCase', '_Method', '__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__name__', '__package__', '__version__', 'check_ipv6', 'getHeaderValues', 'get_proxy_info', 're', 'reportError', 'socket', 'split_host', 'sys', 'transports', 'urllib', 'xmlrpclib']</span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Any python wizard(s) on the list able to tell me how to find out what module/file the rpclib attributes are coming from on each server? </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"> Alan Pittman [<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:Alan.Pittman@publix.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:Alan.Pittman@publix.com">mailto:Alan.Pittman@publix.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 06, 2012 4:39 PM<br><b>To:</b> Boyd, Robert; 'fnwsa@yahoo.com'; 'spacewalk-list@redhat.com'<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [Spacewalk-list] mrepo / gensystemid errors</span></div></div></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Robert/Nick,</span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> Unfortunately, I’m not a Python expert, so when things like this crop up, I have to rely on Google searches. I did get a hit that implies that if you use an RHN userid and password that’s not set up, messages like what you are getting will occur. Can you verify that you are using the correct RHN information?</span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Alan</span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"> Boyd, Robert [<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:Robert.Boyd@peoplefluent.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:Robert.Boyd@peoplefluent.com">mailto:Robert.Boyd@peoplefluent.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 06, 2012 4:26 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:fnwsa@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:fnwsa@yahoo.com">fnwsa@yahoo.com</a>; <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:spacewalk-list@redhat.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:spacewalk-list@redhat.com">spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a>; Alan Pittman<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [Spacewalk-list] mrepo / gensystemid errors</span></div></div></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Alan,</span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Here is some more information. I inserted a print statement </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">print "rpclib attributes: ", dir(rpclib)</span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">just before where this error occurs and I get this:</span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">rpclib attributes: ['DictType', 'DictionaryType', 'GETServer', 'InvalidRedirectionError', 'ListType', 'MAX_REDIRECTIONS', 'MalformedURIError', 'RangeError', 'Server', 'SlicingMethod', 'StringType', 'TupleType', 'UnicodeType', 'UserDictCase', '_Method', '__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__name__', '__package__', '__version__', 'check_ipv6', 'getHeaderValues', 'get_proxy_info', 're', 'reportError', 'socket', 'split_host', 'sys', 'transports', 'urllib', 'xmlrpclib']</span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">There is obviously no Fault attribute. I wonder if somehow the wrong rpclib is being imported in the beginning of the code:</span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">if os.path.exists('/usr/share/mrepo/up2date_client/'):</span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> sys.path.insert(-1, '/usr/share/mrepo/')</span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> sys.path.insert(-1, '/usr/share/mrepo/up2date_client/')</span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">elif os.path.exists('/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/'):</span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> sys.path.insert(-1, '/usr/share/rhn/')</span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> sys.path.insert(-1, '/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/')</span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">else:</span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> print >>sys.stderr, 'rhnget: up2date libraries are not installed. Aborting execution'</span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> sys.exit(1)</span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">from up2date_client import config, rpcServer, up2dateErrors</span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">from rhn import rpclib</span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Is it possible that somehow there are different rpclib modules in the Red Hat provided and the spacewalk kit?</span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">I tried this: grep rpclib /usr/share/rhn/*/*</span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">What I notice is that the ONLY use of the .Fault attribute is in connection with xmlrpclib, not rpclib. I also see that in one file there is a statement where they set rpclib = xmlrpclib. </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">I’m a complete newbie with Python – so I’m not entirely sure but it looks like something got updated in the rhn libraries and mrepo needs to catch up.</span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Robert</span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"> <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com">spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com</a> [<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com">mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:fnwsa@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:fnwsa@yahoo.com">fnwsa@yahoo.com</a><br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 06, 2012 1:18 PM<br><b>To:</b> Alan Pittman; 'spacewalk-list@redhat.com'<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Spacewalk-list] Repository URL?</span></div></div></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal"> </div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">Hi Alan,</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">Your answer is the the right one. ' mrepo -uvvv' started working. It's so great1 Thank you very much again!</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">Now I've got a new issue that really drove me crazy: gensystemid was working fine last Friday, but stop working this morning. It's probably because I messed up some python stuff when doing the mrepo issue troubleshooting. Here is the error:</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"># gensystemid -r 5Server -a i386 /var/mrepo/rhel5Server-i386<br>/usr/share/mrepo/up2date_client/up2dateUtils.py:16: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead<br> import md5 ((this error seems ok))<br>RHN Username:<br>RHN Password:<br>Traceback (most recent call last):<br> File "/usr/bin/gensystemid", line 270, in <module><br> main()<br> File "/usr/bin/gensystemid", line 244, in main<br> except rpclib.Fault, f:<br>AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Fault'</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">From this error, I can't decide which packages should be uninstalled/reinstalled to fix the new problem. Please help! Thanks!</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white;"><span style="color:black;">nz</span></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;background:white;" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:black;"><hr align="center" size="1" width="100%"></span></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:black;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:black;"> Alan Pittman <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:Alan.Pittman@publix.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:Alan.Pittman@publix.com">Alan.Pittman@publix.com</a>><br><b>To:</b> "'fnwsa@yahoo.com'" <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:fnwsa@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:fnwsa@yahoo.com">fnwsa@yahoo.com</a>>; "'spacewalk-list@redhat.com'" <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:spacewalk-list@redhat.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:spacewalk-list@redhat.com">spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 6, 2012 7:48:51 AM<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [Spacewalk-list] Repository URL?</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div><div id="yiv954737428"><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">Nick,</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;"> I did a search on _<i>use</i>_datetime and mrepo. I found a website called github that had some information related to mrepo and a python module called transports.py. It appears a update was made by adding the following (highlighted in red below):</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;"> </span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;">class Transport(xmlrpclib.Transport):</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"> user_agent = "rhn.rpclib.py/%s" % __version__</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"> </span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:red;">_use_datetime = False</span></b><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"> </span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"> def __init__(self, transfer=0, encoding=0, refreshCallback=None,</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"> progressCallback=None):</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"> self._transport_flags = {'transfer' : 0, 'encoding' : 0}</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"> self.set_transport_flags(transfer=transfer, encoding=encoding)</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"> self._headers = UserDictCase()</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"> self.verbose = 0</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"> self.connection = None</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"> self.method = "POST"</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"> self._lang = None</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"> self.refreshCallback = refreshCallback</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"> self.progressCallback = progressCallback</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"> self.bufferSize = 16384</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"> self.headers_in = None</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"> self.response_status = None</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"> self.response_reason = None</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"> self._redirected = None</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"> </span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">I am running mrepo-0.8.7-4.el6 and haven’t seen this problem, but I added the line to my transports.py file anyhow and ran a test download. It seems to work okay. You might want to give this a try. I can’t say that this is the answer, but it’s worth a shot.</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;"> </span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">Alan</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;"> </span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;"> </span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"> <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:fnwsa@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:fnwsa@yahoo.com">fnwsa@yahoo.com</a> [<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:fnwsa@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:fnwsa@yahoo.com">mailto:fnwsa@yahoo.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 03, 2012 5:03 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:fnwsa@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:fnwsa@yahoo.com">fnwsa@yahoo.com</a>; Alan Pittman; 'spacewalk-list@redhat.com'; <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:spacewalk-list@redhat.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:spacewalk-list@redhat.com">spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Spacewalk-list] Repository URL?</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">I've made a small mrepo.conf, but got the same errors.</span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">AttributeError: SafeTransport instance has no attribute '_use_datetime'<br>mrepo: Mirroring failed for rhns:///rhel-i386-server-5 with message:<br>Failed with return code: 256</span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">The error '_use_datetime' needs to be fixed. </span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">-----------------------------------------</span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"># cat /etc/mrepo.conf<br>[main]<br>srcdir = /var/mrepo.new<br>wwwdir = /var/www/mrepo<br>confdir = /etc/mrepo.conf.d<br>arch = i386<br><br>mailto = root@localhost<br>smtp-server = localhost<br><br>rhnlogin = xxxxxxxx:xxxxxxxx<br>lftp-commands = set hftp:use-head 0<br><br>[rhel-server-5-i386]<br>name = Red Hat Advanced Server $release ($arch)<br>release = 5<br>arch = i386<br><br>updates = rhns:///rhel-$arch-server-5<br>supplementary = rhns:///rhel-$arch-server-$repo-5<br>rhn-tools = rhns:///$repo-rhel-$arch-server-5<br><br>rpmforge = <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$release/en/$arch/RPMS.dag/">http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$release/en/$arch/RPMS.dag/</a><br>elrepo = <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el5/$arch/">http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el5/$arch/</a><br>spacewalk = <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.7/RHEL/5/i386/">http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.7/RHEL/5/i386/</a></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">------------------------------------------------<br><br>Thank you & have a good weekend! </span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;"><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">nz</span></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;background:white;" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"><hr align="center" size="1" width="100%"></span></div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"> "<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:fnwsa@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:fnwsa@yahoo.com">fnwsa@yahoo.com</a>" <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:fnwsa@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:fnwsa@yahoo.com">fnwsa@yahoo.com</a>><br><b>To:</b> Alan Pittman <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:Alan.Pittman@publix.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:Alan.Pittman@publix.com">Alan.Pittman@publix.com</a>>; "'spacewalk-list@redhat.com'" <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:spacewalk-list@redhat.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:spacewalk-list@redhat.com">spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 3, 2012 4:17:42 PM<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Spacewalk-list] Repository URL?</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div><div id="yiv954737428"><div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">Alan,</span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">Here is the info:</span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"># ls -l /var/mrepo/<br>total 24<br>drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 4 2010 all<br>drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Aug 3 16:04 rhel5c-i386<br>drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 3 14:08 rhel5Server-i386<br>drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 3 14:12 rhel5Server-x86_64<br>drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Aug 3 16:05 rhel5s-i386<br>drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Aug 3 16:07 rhel-server-5-x86_64</span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">(Each directory has its own systemid file created)</span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"># cat /etc/mrepo.conf<br>[main]<br>srcdir = /var/mrepo<br>wwwdir = /var/www/mrepo<br>confdir = /etc/mrepo.conf.d<br>arch = i386<br><br>mailto = root@localhost<br>smtp-server = localhost<br><br>rhnlogin = rhnuserid:rhnpasswd<br>lftp-commands = set hftp:use-head 0<br><br>### Any other section is considered a definition for a distribution<br>### You can put distribution sections in /etc/mrepo.conf.d/<br>### Examples can be found in the documentation at:<br>### /usr/share/doc/mrepo-0.8.7/dists/.<br><br>### Additional repositories<br>updates = rhns:///rhel-$arch-server-5<br># vt = rhns:///rhel-$arch-server-$repo-5<br>supplementary = rhns:///rhel-$arch-server-$repo-5<br># fastrack = rhns:///rhel-$arch-server-$repo-5<br># hts = rhns:///rhel-$arch-server-$repo-5<br>rhn-tools = rhns:///$repo-rhel-$arch-server-5<br><br>### RPMforge repository<br># rpmforge = rsync://apt.sw.be/pub/freshrpms/pub/dag/redhat/el$release/en/$arch/RPMS.dag/<br>#rpmforge = <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" 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><br>rpmforge = <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$release/en/$arch/RPMS.dag/">http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$release/en/$arch/RPMS.dag/</a><br><br>### EPEL repository<br># EPEL = <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://mirror.chpc.utah.edu/pub/epel/$release/$arch/">http://mirror.chpc.utah.edu/pub/epel/$release/$arch/</a><br>EPEL = <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://mirror.metrocast.net/fedora/epel/5/x86_64/">http://mirror.metrocast.net/fedora/epel/5/x86_64/</a><br><br>### ELrepo repository<br>#elrepo-testing = <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://elrepo.org/linux/testing/el5/$arch/">http://elrepo.org/linux/testing/el5/$arch/</a><br>elrepo = <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el5/$arch/">http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el5/$arch/</a><br><br>### Custom repository for your own RPM packages<br>mondo = <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.mondorescue.org/ftp/rhel/5/x86_64">http://www.mondorescue.org/ftp/rhel/5/x86_64</a><br>spacewalk = <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.7/RHEL/5/x86_64">http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.7/RHEL/5/x86_64</a><br>spacewalk = <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.7/RHEL/5/i386/">http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.7/RHEL/5/i386/</a></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"># ls /etc/mrepo.conf.d<br>rhel5c.conf rhel5s.conf</span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">Thank you!</span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;"><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">nz</span></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;background:white;" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"><hr align="center" size="1" width="100%"></span></div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" 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 rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:Alan.Pittman@publix.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:Alan.Pittman@publix.com">Alan.Pittman@publix.com</a>><br><b>To:</b> "'fnwsa@yahoo.com'" <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:fnwsa@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:fnwsa@yahoo.com">fnwsa@yahoo.com</a>>; "'spacewalk-list@redhat.com'" <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:spacewalk-list@redhat.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:spacewalk-list@redhat.com">spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 3, 2012 3:59:26 PM<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [Spacewalk-list] Repository URL?</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div><div id="yiv954737428"><div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">Nick,</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;"> Did you run the gensystemid command? If so, where does the systemid file reside? </span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;"> </span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">You should have a separate ID for each version and architecture that you want to download.</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;"> </span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">I created 4 IDs. They reside in the base (source) directories where mrepo stores the RPMs for each version/architecture.</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;"> </span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">/clonefs/6Server-i386/systemid</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">/clonefs/6Server-x86_64/systemid</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">/clonefs/5Server-i386/systemid</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">/clonefs/5Server-x86_64/systemid</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;"> </span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;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.</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;"> </span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">From my config file:</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">[5Server-x86_64]</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">name = Red Hat Enterprise Server ($release) ($arch)</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">release = 5</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">arch = x86_64</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">metadata = repomd repoview</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">iso = /clonefs/5Server-x86_64/rhel-server-5.7-x86_64-dvd.iso</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;"> </span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">[5Server-i386]</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">name = Red Hat Enterprise Server ($release) ($arch)</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">release = 5</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">arch = i386 </span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">metadata = repomd repoview</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">iso = /clonefs/5Server-i386/rhel-server-5.7-i386-dvd.iso</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;"> </span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">[6Server-x86_64]</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">name = Red Hat Enterprise Server ($release) ($arch)</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">release = 6</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">arch = x86_64</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">metadata = repomd repoview</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">iso = /clonefs/6Server-x86_64/rhel-server-6.0-x86_64-dvd.iso</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;"> </span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">[6Server-i386]</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">name = Red Hat Enterprise Server ($release) ($arch)</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">release = 6</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">arch = i386 </span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">metadata = repomd repoview</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">iso = /clonefs/6Server-386/rhel-server-6.0-i386-dvd.iso</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;"> </span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;"> </span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">Alan</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;"> </span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;"> </span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;"> </span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"> <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:fnwsa@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:fnwsa@yahoo.com">fnwsa@yahoo.com</a> [<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:fnwsa@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:fnwsa@yahoo.com">mailto:fnwsa@yahoo.com</a>] <br><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?</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">Alan,</span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" 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:</span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">---------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" 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</span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">---------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">It looks like a datetime issue.</span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"># date<br>Fri Aug 3 15:27:10 EDT 2012</span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"># rpm -q rhpl<br>rhpl-0.221-2.el6.rf.x86_64</span></div></div></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;"><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"><br>I've googled a lot but haven't found a solution yet. Any help will be greatly appreciated!</span></div></div></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;"><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">nz</span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;background:white;" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"><hr align="center" size="1" width="100%"></span></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" 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 rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:Alan.Pittman@publix.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:Alan.Pittman@publix.com">Alan.Pittman@publix.com</a>><br><b>To:</b> "'fnwsa@yahoo.com'" <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:fnwsa@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:fnwsa@yahoo.com">fnwsa@yahoo.com</a>>; "'spacewalk-list@redhat.com'" <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:spacewalk-list@redhat.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:spacewalk-list@redhat.com">spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a>> <br><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;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div></div><div id="yiv954737428"><div><div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">Nick,</span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" 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.</span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" 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;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;"> </span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">root@taeps001 etc]# cat ./mrepo.conf</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">### Configuration file for mrepo</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;"> </span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" 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;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" 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;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">[main]</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">srcdir = /clonefs </span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">wwwdir = /var/www/mrepo</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">confdir = /etc/mrepo.conf.d</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">arch = i386 x86_64</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;"> </span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">mailto = root@localhost</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">smtp-server = localhost</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;"> </span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">rhnlogin = <rhnuserid>:<rhnpassword></span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;"> </span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" 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;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" 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;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">### Examples can be found in the documentation at:</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">### /usr/share/doc/mrepo-0.8.7/dists/.</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;"> </span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">[5Server-x86_64]</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">name = Red Hat Enterprise Server ($release) ($arch)</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">release = 5</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">arch = x86_64</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">metadata = repomd repoview</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" 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;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;"> </span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">### Additional repositories</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">updates = rhns:///rhel-$arch-server-5</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;"># vt = rhns:///rhel-$arch-server-$repo-5</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">supplementary = rhns:///rhel-$arch-server-$repo-5</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;"># fastrack = rhns:///rhel-$arch-server-$repo-5</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;"># hts = rhns:///rhel-$arch-server-$repo-5</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">rhn-tools = rhns:///$repo-rhel-$arch-server-5</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;"> </span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">### RPMforge repository</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;"># rpmforge = rsync://apt.sw.be/pub/freshrpms/pub/dag/redhat/el$release/en/$arch/RPMS.dag/</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">#rpmforge = <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="ftp://apt.sw.be/pub/dag/pub/redhat/el$release/en/$arch/RPMS.dag/">ftp://apt.sw.be/pub/dag/pub/redhat/el$release/en/$arch/RPMS.dag/</a></span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">rpmforge = <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$release/en/$arch/RPMS.dag/">http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$release/en/$arch/RPMS.dag/</a></span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;"> </span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">### EPEL repository</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;"># EPEL = <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://mirror.chpc.utah.edu/pub/epel/$release/$arch/">http://mirror.chpc.utah.edu/pub/epel/$release/$arch/</a></span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">EPEL = <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://mirror.metrocast.net/fedora/epel/5/x86_64/">http://mirror.metrocast.net/fedora/epel/5/x86_64/</a> </span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;"> </span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">### ELrepo repository</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">elrepo = <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el5/$arch/">http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el5/$arch/</a></span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">#elrepo-testing = <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://elrepo.org/linux/testing/el5/$arch/">http://elrepo.org/linux/testing/el5/$arch/</a></span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;"> </span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">### OpenVZ repositories</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">#ovzkernel = <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://download.openvz.org/kernel/rhel5/">http://download.openvz.org/kernel/rhel5/</a></span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">#ovztemplate = <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://download.openvz.org/template/">http://download.openvz.org/template/</a></span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">#ovzutils = <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://download.openvz.org/utils/">http://download.openvz.org/utils/</a></span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;"> </span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">### Fedora EPEL packages (incompatible with RPMforge)</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">#epel = <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" 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;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;"> </span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">### Custom repository for your own RPM packages</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">mondo = <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" 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;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">spacewalk = <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" 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;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;"> </span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;"> </span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"> <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:fnwsa@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:fnwsa@yahoo.com">fnwsa@yahoo.com</a> [<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:fnwsa@yahoo.com" target="_blank" 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;"></span></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">Hi Alan,</span></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">Thank you very much for your very helpful reply!!</span></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" 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.</span></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" 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.</span></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">Have a nice day!</span></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">Nick</span></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;background:white;" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"><hr align="center" size="1" width="100%"></span></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" 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 rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:Alan.Pittman@publix.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:Alan.Pittman@publix.com">Alan.Pittman@publix.com</a>><br><b>To:</b> "'fnwsa@yahoo.com'" <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:fnwsa@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:fnwsa@yahoo.com">fnwsa@yahoo.com</a>>; "'spacewalk-list@redhat.com'" <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:spacewalk-list@redhat.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:spacewalk-list@redhat.com">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;"></span></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div></div></div><div id="yiv954737428"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">Nick,</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" 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;"></span></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;"> </span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" 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;"></span></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;"> </span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" 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;"></span></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;"> </span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">aep</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;"> </span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;"> </span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div></div><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"> <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com">spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com</a> [<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com">mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:fnwsa@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:fnwsa@yahoo.com">fnwsa@yahoo.com</a><br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, August 02, 2012 5:01 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:spacewalk-list@redhat.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:spacewalk-list@redhat.com">spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [Spacewalk-list] Repository URL?</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" 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?</span></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Server/en/os/x86_64/Debuginfo/repodata/">ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Server/en/os/x86_64/Debuginfo/repodata/</a><br><br>If it's not the right one, where can I find it?<br><br>Thank you in advance!<br><br>Nick</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;"><div><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;"><div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;"><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;"><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"><br>_______________________________________________<br>Spacewalk-list mailing list<br><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:Spacewalk-list@redhat.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:Spacewalk-list@redhat.com">Spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list</a></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="yiv954737428MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>