[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk Repo Sync - Mirror Lists?

[Justin Sherrill]

Jason Frisvold wrote:
> On 08/12/2009 09:00 AM, Andy Speagle wrote:
>> So, yes... I hardcoded one of the mirrors.
> 
> I couldn't get it to work, so I came up with what I thought was a more
> elegant solution ...  I have a script that runs daily (/etc/cron.daily)
> to sync my spacewalk installation with the repos.  Previously it used
> reposync and rhnpush, but now I can just use spacewalk-repo-sync and
> save my self about 20G of space..  :)
> 
> To solve the mirror problem, and hopefully still stay somewhat true to
> the idea of using a mirror list, I'm using the following :
> 
> MYURL=`curl -s
> "http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5.3&arch=i386&repo=os" | head -1`
> spacewalk-repo-sync --channel centos-5 --url $MYURL --label base-5
> --type yum
> 
> It ran last night and sync'ed all of my systems, so it seems to work well.
> 
> One question I did have is whether the repo sync will remove packages
> that are no longer in the repository ...  I'll test this out myself, but
> if anyone knows, I'd appreciate the info.

Nope it will not.  It does a blind import (assuming the package isn't
already there).

-Justin


> 
>> Andy Speagle
> 
> Thanks,
> 


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