[Spacewalk-list] Best why to Sync Centos repo??

[Thomas von Steiger]

On 24.06.2009, at 13:44, John Hodrien wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Shaun Rampersad wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the reply.
>>
>> I'm using the following entry in my yum repo file
>>
>> [Centos4-x86_64-base]
>> name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
>> #baseurl=http://centos.mirror.ac.za/4/os/x86_64/
>> baseurl=http://mirror.ukhost4u.com/centos/4/os/x86_64/
>> gpgcheck=1
>> gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-4
>>
>> I changed mirrors above to test if it was a problem with the mirror
>>
>> When I run the following command, it syncs 486 packages only
>> #> reposync --repoid=Centos4-x86_64-base
>>
>> [Centos4-x86_64-base: 485   of 486   ] Skipping existing CentOS/ 
>> RPMS/zlib-1.2.1.2-1.2.i386.rpm
>> [Centos4-x86_64-base: 486   of 486   ] Skipping existing CentOS/ 
>> RPMS/zlib-devel-1.2.1.2-1.2.i386.rpm
>>
>> Surely there has to be more than 486 packages on the mirror? The  
>> same happens with other repo's although they have different counts
>
> So, I pull down http://mirror.ukhost4u.com/centos/4/os/x86_64/,  
> strip the crud
> off and...:
>
> grep -v x86_64 index.html |wc -l
> 486
>
> I'm guessing you're doing the reposync on a 32bit machine?
>
> reposync --repoid=Centos4-x86_64-base --arch=x86_64
>
> Perhaps?

I think too, because i reposync 32bit on 32bit guest and 64 bit on 64  
bit guest for centos repos with only --repoid option.

--
LOGFILE=/var/log/sync_repo2spacewalk.log
REPODIR=/path/repo/spacewalk
ARCH=i386
USER=repouser
PWD=repopw
SERVER=http://spacewalk.domain.local
OS=centos-5
REPOS="base extras centosplus updates"
OPTS="--username=$USER --password=$PWD --newest -v --force"


echo "Start sync repo 3 spacewalk for $REPODIR/$ARCH" > $LOGFILE
cd $REPODIR/$ARCH && \
reposync --repoid=base --repoid=extras --repoid=centosplus -- 
repoid=updates >> $LOGFILE
rhnpush $OPTS --server=$SERVER/APP --channel=$OS-base-$ARCH --dir= 
$REPODIR/$ARCH/base/CentOS >> $LOGFILE
rhnpush $OPTS --server=$SERVER/APP --channel=$OS-extras-$ARCH --dir= 
$REPODIR/$ARCH/extras/RPMS >> $LOGFILE
rhnpush $OPTS --server=$SERVER/APP --channel=$OS-centosplus-$ARCH -- 
dir=$REPODIR/$ARCH/centosplus/RPMS >> $LOGFILE
rhnpush $OPTS --server=$SERVER/APP --channel=$OS-updates-$ARCH --dir= 
$REPODIR/$ARCH/updates/RPMS >> $LOGFILE
--
And with this i get the 32bit repo two spacewalk daily.
I think something with cobbler 2 spacewalk sync would be more practicle?

Thomas