Allen I'm sorry you had so much difficulty but at this point I think I know what your problem is and its not my script its the command line options you are using combine with an issue in the spacewalk APIs that you are not aware of. Essentially you can not currently have an errata with the same name span to different base channels without risking corrupting your channels for details see the bug ticket here. <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=834569">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=834569</a> Until this bug is fixed <a href="http://eva-direct-errata-sync.pl">eva-direct-errata-sync.pl</a> will not allow you to publish a single erratas to multiple base channels because its too dangerous. until then you must use these options for each base channel so the erratas get a different name for each channel -e RH or --rewriteerratanamefrom RH The literal sub string from the source errata names you would like to replace. -E CENTOSX86_64 or --rewriteerratanameto CENTOSX86_64 The value to replace the substring from the source errata name with on the destination also in your case you do not need --sourceserver=<a href="http://rhn.redhat.com" target="_blank">rhn.redhat.com</a> \ --destinationserver=localhost \ additionally the --verbose option is the flag is the debug message flag and not including it makes the output much clearer. <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Alan Pittman <<a href="mailto:Alan.Pittman@publix.com" target="_blank">Alan.Pittman@publix.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"> <div> Franky, I downloaded your script earlier today. On the first attempt, I was having the same issue, but then I decided to run separately against each child channel and it seems to be working. Alan <div> <div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"> From: <a href="mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com" target="_blank">spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com" target="_blank">spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com</a>] On Behalf Of Franky Van Liedekerke Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 4:02 PM<div><div class="h5"> To: <a href="mailto:spacewalk-list@redhat.com" target="_blank">spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] converting from <a href="http://get_errata.pl" target="_blank">get_errata.pl</a> to <a href="http://eva-direct-errata-sync.pl" target="_blank">eva-direct-errata-sync.pl</a></div> </div> </div> </div><div><div class="h5"> Maybe you can try my errata script: <a href="https://github.com/liedekef/spacewalk_scripts" target="_blank">https://github.com/liedekef/spacewalk_scripts</a> . It had been working for many months at the company I'm working now, for a combo of redhat and centos channels, land using a proxy. It's easy to use and gets the job done. Franky <div> Alan Pittman <<a href="mailto:Alan.Pittman@publix.com" target="_blank">Alan.Pittman@publix.com</a>> schreef: Based on the reply below, I decided to spend all day Thursday adding the additional RHEL channels and sync-ing them up. Then I re-ran the <a href="http://eva-direct-errata-sync.pl" target="_blank">eva-direct-errata-sync.pl</a> program/script. After letting it run all night (or however long it took), I logged on to the GUI and went to the errata screen. Selected "all" and nothing was displayed. See the attached jpeg. When I ran the errata-sync script, I redirected all of standard out to a file in /tmp. Reviewing the file showed hundreds of messages like this: checking if RHSA-2012:1483 exists on the destination host Getting details for RHSA-2012:1483 getting RHSA-2012:1483 from the source Getting details for RHSA-2012:1483 Skipping errata RHSA-2012:1483 because none of its packages could be found in the destination channels Based on your reply, it makes sense that the older errata would and should be skipped. However, using the errata listed above (RHSA-2012:1483), I did some research. When I look up this one on the Red Hat Customer Portal, it’s for Thunderbird. Specifically for packages: <a name="13bbf5ca0592b686_RHEL_Optional_Productivity_Applications_">RHEL Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server)</a> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding:4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt"> IA-32: </td> <td style="border:none;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in" width="12"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="background:white;padding:4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt"> thunderbird-10.0.11-1.el5_8.i386.rpm </td> <td style="background:white;padding:4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt"></td> <td style="border:none;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in" width="12"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" style="padding:4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt"> x86_64: </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="background:white;padding:4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt"> thunderbird-10.0.11-1.el5_8.x86_64.rpm <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding:4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt"> <a name="13bbf5ca0592b686_Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_Server_(v._6)">Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding:4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"> <hr style="color:#a0a0a0" noshade size="1" width="100%" align="center"> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding:4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt"> SRPMS: </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="background:white;padding:4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt"> thunderbird-10.0.11-1.el6_3.src.rpm </td> <td style="background:white;padding:4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt" valign="top"> MD5: ff2af052f366c47bc2dc85a678be69fa SHA-256: fcab1a66282f61f1c7d70ef0a1510c26192efe336fd00a32f7dba384b1551b4b </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding:4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding:4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt"> IA-32: </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="background:white;padding:4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt"> thunderbird-10.0.11-1.el6_3.i686.rpm </td> <td style="background:white;padding:4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt" valign="top"> MD5: 086fd6f439cf7c5b72ce26569c36fa0f SHA-256: fc22b80774490a0ee135dd3d955faa402fd4b93379c915706009acfc7e3b173b </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="background:#eeeeee;padding:4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt"> thunderbird-debuginfo-10.0.11-1.el6_3.i686.rpm </td> <td style="background:#eeeeee;padding:4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt"></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> <td style="background:white;padding:4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt"></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="background:white;padding:4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt"> I then looked up thunderbird in the GUI and found the same rpms (see the Thunderbird gif image). So, I guess I’m not understanding standing. Is there something I’m missing? Is there some additional debugging options/parameters that I can turn on (I’m not a perl expert) that might help me debug this problem? Alan </td> <td style="background:white;padding:4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt"></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width:521.25pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in" width="695"></td> <td style="width:34.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in" width="46"></td> <td style="width:9.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in" width="12"></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> -----Original Message----- From: <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>] On Behalf Of Paul Robert Marino Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 5:29 PM To: <a href="mailto:spacewalk-list@redhat.com" target="_blank">spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] converting from <a href="http://get_errata.pl" target="_blank">get_errata.pl</a> to <a href="http://eva-direct-errata-sync.pl" target="_blank">eva-direct-errata-sync.pl</a> well these are a common question first when you go int errata are you looking at the all or relevant page which is the default go into ERRATA -> All to see them all if you just go into ERRATA you are viewing the Relevant page which only shows you erratas that apply to systems that have not been patched yet. this message " Skipping errata RHSA-2007:0153 because none of its packages could be found in the destination channels " there are no rpms in any of the channels that match the rpms in any of the repos that match the ones in the errata in this case its an errata from 2007 which has probably long since been deprecated by a newer errata and Redhat only keeps a few previous versions of an rpm in RHN so your spacewalk server probably had any of those rpms and never will. so <a href="http://eva-direct-errata-sync.pl" target="_blank">eva-direct-errata-sync.pl</a> does not publish them because essentially they are useless. its also a safety in case your repos are out of sync with RHN; because <a href="http://eva-direct-errata-sync.pl" target="_blank">eva-direct-errata-sync.pl</a> will not update an already published errata. On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Alan Pittman <<a href="mailto:Alan.Pittman@publix.com" target="_blank">Alan.Pittman@publix.com</a>> wrote: > Hi, > 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 > <a href="http://get_errata.pl" target="_blank">get_errata.pl</a>. It works, but it’s really slow. On my new machine, I would > like to use <a href="http://eva-direct-errata-sync.pl" target="_blank">eva-direct-errata-sync.pl</a>. > > 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: > > checking if RHSA-2007:0153 exists on the destination host > Getting details for RHSA-2007:0153 > getting RHSA-2007:0153 from the source > Getting details for RHSA-2007:0153 > Skipping errata RHSA-2007:0153 because none of its packages could be found > in the destination channels > checking if RHSA-2007:0157 exists on the destination host > Getting details for RHSA-2007:0157 > getting RHSA-2007:0157 from the source > Getting details for RHSA-2007:0157 > getting details for package xorg-x11-apps > getting details for package xorg-x11-apps > Skipping errata RHSA-2007:0157 because none of its packages could be found > in the destination channels > checking if RHSA-2007:0123 exists on the destination host > Getting details for RHSA-2007:0123 > getting RHSA-2007:0123 from the source > Getting details for RHSA-2007:0123 > Skipping errata RHSA-2007:0123 because none of its packages could be found > in the destination channels > > Here’s the script and the options that I used: > > #/bin/bash > > /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/sbin/<a href="http://eva-direct-errata-sync.pl" target="_blank">eva-direct-errata-sync.pl</a> \ > --sourceuser=AAAAAA \ > --destinationuser=BBBBBBBB \ > --sourcepassword=XXXXXXXXXX \ > --destinationpassword=ZZZZZZZZZZ \ > --sourcechannel=rhel-i386-server-5 \ > --destinationchannel=rhel-i386-server-5 \ > --sourceserver=<a href="http://rhn.redhat.com" target="_blank">rhn.redhat.com</a> \ > --destinationserver=localhost \ > --recursive \ > --verbose > > Here’s my Spacewalk channel structure: > Parent: > Channel name: rhel-i386-server-5 Channel Label: rhel-32bit-server-5 > Children: > Channel name: rhel-i386-server-5-rhn-tools > Channel label: rhel-32bit-server-5-rhn-tools > Channel name: rhel-i386-server-5-spacewalk-client-1.7 Channel label: > rhel-32bit-server-5-spacewalk-client-1.7 > Channel name: rhel-i386-server-5-supplementary Channel > label: rhel-32bit-server-5-supplementary > Channel name: rhel-i386-server-5-updates > Channel label: rhel-32bit-server-5-updates > > The same structure exists for RHEL5-x86_64 and both RHEL6 channels. > > I use mrepo to get the packages and I use spacewalk-repo-sync to load them. > Here’s an example: > > /usr/bin/spacewalk-repo-sync --channel rhel-32bit-server-5-rhn-tools --type > yum > > In the channels I have the following number of packages: > rhel-i386-server-5-rhn-tools 233 > rhel-i386-server-5-spacewalk-client-1.7 21 > rhel-i386-server-5-supplementary 93 > rhel-i386-server-5-updates 2559 > > If anyone has any suggestions as to what I can look at to determine what’s > wrong, I would appreciate it. > > Alan > > > Alan Pittman > Publix Super Markets, Inc > <a href="tel:863-686-8754%20x46320" value="+18636868754" target="_blank">863-686-8754 x46320</a> > <a href="mailto:alan.pittman@publix.com" target="_blank">alan.pittman@publix.com</a> > > Unix is user-friendly. 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