<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"> <html><body> Yet another errata clone script ... for CentOS and RedHat Hi, based on some existing scripts (eva_direct_sync.pl and errata-import.pl), I've created a new script. Reason for the rework: - we have redhat and centos packages in spacewalk, both can have the same package names, which would result in redhat packages being pushed in centos channels because of the errata create (and thus everything fails) - the XML file of errata-import.pl is ok, but updated by one person and only for security errata (I think) - errata-import.pl had good code, but no RHN integration, and is too easy for missing packages (if 1 package from the errata is there, the errata is created, while other packages might be missing) - always different scripts were created/used for redhat and centos errata So, my script (well, combo of shell and perl) was born: For CentOS: - first some shell calls to get the latest announces from the centos archive (but not by scraping the announces list, but getting digests, much less traffic then) You can change the number of announces anyway you want by changing the wget command to your liking - then the perl script comes along, parsing the digest files and looking in 1 channel (yes, one) for package availability and creating the errata there. It has optional integration with RHN for notes, description, topic info, and CVE's and/or can use the OVAL file like the errata-import.pl script does. The created errata gets a suffix based on the OS version and architecture (e.g. ":C5-64" or "C6-32"), because the same errata can exist for multiple OS versions and architectures (and creating the errata for more than one base channel would result in packages being copied which is a mess again). Also a proxy can be defined for spacewalk and or RHN servers Or, for RedHat: - log in to RHN, get the errata for the specified channel (possibility to define the date range) - then follow the same logic as for CentOS If anybody is interested, I'll put it on github or so ... Franky <div> </div> </body></html>