<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <style type="text/css" style="display:none"></style> </head> <body dir="ltr" style="font-size:12pt;color:#000000;background-color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <p>Thanks, Matt.<br> </p> <p><br> </p> <p>I've actually written a small application in Go (it's about time that compiled languages made a comeback, right?) that uses the XML-RPC API to do this instead. Configuration is driven JSON files similar to those used by merge-channel-by-date. I'll speak to my superiors tomorrow and see if they will let me put it up on Github.<br> </p> <p><br> </p> <p>Thanks,<br> </p> <p>Alex<br> </p> <p><br> </p> <div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"> <hr tabindex="-1" style="display:inline-block; width:98%"> <div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com <spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com> on behalf of Matthew Madey <mattmadey@gmail.com><br> <b>Sent:</b> Monday, July 21, 2014 5:39 PM<br> <b>To:</b> spacewalk-list@redhat.com<br> <b>Subject:</b> Re: [Spacewalk-list] Content Merge - Child Channels</font> <div> </div> </div> <div> <div dir="ltr">Alex, <div><br> </div> <div>Using the api in a python script is probably the best way to do this. I set up a cron job to merge packages.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>I simply create two arrays, one for source channels and one for destination channels like so:</div> <div><br> </div> <div><br> </div> <div> <div>## Source and Destination Channels. All items must be positioned identically in the corresponding lists!</div> <div>src_channels = ['rhel-x86_64-server-6-base', 'rhel-x86_64-server-6-base-epel', 'rhel-x86_64-server-6-base-hpsa', 'rhel-x86_64-server-6-base-optional', 'rhel-x86_64-server-6-base-puppet-dependencies', 'rhel-x86_64-server-6-base-puppet-product', 'rhel-x86_64-server-6-base-spacewalk-client', 'rhel-x86_64-server-6-base-thd-tools', 'rhel-x86_64-server-6-base-tools', 'rhel-x86_64-server-6-base-updates']</div> <div>dst_channels = ['rhel-x86_64-server-6-stores', 'rhel-x86_64-server-6-stores-epel', 'rhel-x86_64-server-6-stores-hpsa', 'rhel-x86_64-server-6-stores-optional', 'rhel-x86_64-server-6-stores-puppet-dependencies', 'rhel-x86_64-server-6-stores-puppet-product', 'rhel-x86_64-server-6-stores-spacewalk-client', 'rhel-x86_64-server-6-stores-thd-tools', 'rhel-x86_64-server-6-stores-tools', 'rhel-x86_64-server-6-stores-updates']</div> <div><br> </div> <div>print "Merging selected channels!"<br> </div> <div><br> </div> <div>client.channel.software.mergePackages(key, src_channels[0], dst_channels[0])</div> <div>client.channel.software.mergePackages(key, src_channels[1], dst_channels[1])</div> <div>client.channel.software.mergePackages(key, src_channels[2], dst_channels[2])</div> <div>client.channel.software.mergePackages(key, src_channels[3], dst_channels[3])</div> <div>client.channel.software.mergePackages(key, src_channels[4], dst_channels[4])</div> <div>client.channel.software.mergePackages(key, src_channels[5], dst_channels[5])</div> <div>client.channel.software.mergePackages(key, src_channels[6], dst_channels[6])</div> <div>client.channel.software.mergePackages(key, src_channels[7], dst_channels[7])</div> <div>client.channel.software.mergePackages(key, src_channels[8], dst_channels[8])</div> <div>client.channel.software.mergePackages(key, src_channels[9], dst_channels[9])</div> <div><br> </div> <div>print "All channels have been synchronized!"</div> <div><br> </div> <div>client.auth.logout(key)</div> </div> <div><br> </div> <div><br> </div> <div>I'm no expert on python, so I'm sure there's a more pythonic way to do this, but it works. </div> <div><br> </div> </div> <div class="gmail_extra"><br> <br> <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 7:50 AM, Alexander Dacre <span dir="ltr"> <<a href="mailto:alex.dacre@aridhia.com" target="_blank">alex.dacre@aridhia.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:1px #ccc solid; padding-left:1ex"> Hi,<br> <br> Firstly, apologies if this appears as a duplicate post - first mailing list.<br> <br> The spacewalk-clone-by data command seems great, but it only seems to do packages with errata?<br> <br> If I was to just keep channels in sync from a package point of view and ignore errata, what would be the best way? I'm currently using the spacewalk-api and channel.software.mergePackages.<br> <br> Thanks,<br> Alex<br> <br> <br> _______________________________________________<br> Spacewalk-list mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Spacewalk-list@redhat.com">Spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a><br> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list</a><br> </blockquote> </div> <br> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>