<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Exchange Server">  <style></style> </head> <body> <font face="Calibri" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"> <div>Hi,</div> <div> I am in the processing of setting up a new Spacewalk server for my RHEL machines. My current server is scheduled to be retired sometime in 2013. I am running RHEL6.3 and using Spacewalk 1.7. On my current machine, I run get_errata.pl. It works, but it’s really slow. On my new machine, I would like to use eva-direct-errata-sync.pl.</div> <div> </div> <div> I just completed a test run with eva-direct and it seemed to run to completion, but it never loaded anything into Spacewalk. At least, when I logon and click on Errata, nothing appears. Reviewing the output I see allot of the following:</div> <div> </div> <div>checking if RHSA-2007:0153 exists on the destination host</div> <div>Getting details for RHSA-2007:0153</div> <div>getting RHSA-2007:0153 from the source</div> <div>Getting details for RHSA-2007:0153</div> <div>Skipping errata RHSA-2007:0153 because none of its packages could be found in the destination channels</div> <div>checking if RHSA-2007:0157 exists on the destination host</div> <div>Getting details for RHSA-2007:0157</div> <div>getting RHSA-2007:0157 from the source</div> <div>Getting details for RHSA-2007:0157</div> <div>getting details for package xorg-x11-apps</div> <div>getting details for package xorg-x11-apps</div> <div>Skipping errata RHSA-2007:0157 because none of its packages could be found in the destination channels</div> <div>checking if RHSA-2007:0123 exists on the destination host</div> <div>Getting details for RHSA-2007:0123</div> <div>getting RHSA-2007:0123 from the source</div> <div>Getting details for RHSA-2007:0123</div> <div>Skipping errata RHSA-2007:0123 because none of its packages could be found in the destination channels</div> <div> </div> <div>Here’s the script and the options that I used:</div> <div> </div> <div>#/bin/bash</div> <div> </div> <div>/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/sbin/eva-direct-errata-sync.pl \</div> <div>--sourceuser=AAAAAA \</div> <div>--destinationuser=BBBBBBBB \</div> <div>--sourcepassword=XXXXXXXXXX \</div> <div>--destinationpassword=ZZZZZZZZZZ \</div> <div>--sourcechannel=rhel-i386-server-5 \</div> <div>--destinationchannel=rhel-i386-server-5 \</div> <div>--sourceserver=rhn.redhat.com \</div> <div>--destinationserver=localhost \</div> <div>--recursive \</div> <div>--verbose</div> <div> </div> <div>Here’s my Spacewalk channel structure:</div> <div> Parent:</div> <div> Channel name: rhel-i386-server-5 Channel Label: rhel-32bit-server-5 </div> <div> Children:</div> <div> Channel name: rhel-i386-server-5-rhn-tools Channel label: rhel-32bit-server-5-rhn-tools</div> <div> Channel name: rhel-i386-server-5-spacewalk-client-1.7 Channel label: rhel-32bit-server-5-spacewalk-client-1.7</div> <div> Channel name: rhel-i386-server-5-supplementary Channel label: rhel-32bit-server-5-supplementary</div> <div> Channel name: rhel-i386-server-5-updates Channel label: rhel-32bit-server-5-updates</div> <div> </div> <div>The same structure exists for RHEL5-x86_64 and both RHEL6 channels.</div> <div> </div> <div>I use mrepo to get the packages and I use spacewalk-repo-sync to load them. Here’s an example:</div> <div> </div> <div>/usr/bin/spacewalk-repo-sync --channel rhel-32bit-server-5-rhn-tools --type yum</div> <div> </div> <div>In the channels I have the following number of packages:</div> <div>rhel-i386-server-5-rhn-tools 233</div> <div>rhel-i386-server-5-spacewalk-client-1.7 21</div> <div>rhel-i386-server-5-supplementary 93</div> <div>rhel-i386-server-5-updates 2559</div> <div> </div> <div>If anyone has any suggestions as to what I can look at to determine what’s wrong, I would appreciate it.</div> <div> </div> <div>Alan</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div>Alan Pittman</div> <div>Publix Super Markets, Inc</div> <div>863-686-8754 x46320</div> <div>alan.pittman@publix.com</div> <div> </div> <div><b><i>Unix</i></b><b> is </b><b><i>user</i></b><b>-</b><b><i>friendly</i></b><b>. It's just very selective about who its friends are.</b></div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> </span></font> </body> </html>