[Spacewalk-list] reposync RHEL repositories on Centos Spacewalk

Wojtak, Greg GregWojtak at quickenloans.com
Fri Jun 26 13:23:04 UTC 2009 

Maybe I’m doing something wrong or I phrased my question incorrectly.  When I run mrepo, it grabs the entire rpm set, not just the updates (deltas) from the base.  So I always end up with the complete contents of what is under RPMS/ on the Red Hat CD/DVD, although the packages are the most up to date.  Does that makes sense?  I guess what I am wanting is to *only* pull down the packages that have been updated that are not on the most recent CD/DVD

From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Becker, Robert
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There's a script on the wiki page called create channel by update, or something along those lines. Use that to create individual channels for each RH version and update you want. The big monolithic channel is my base channel.




On Jun 25, 2009, at 5:19 PM, "Wojtak, Greg" <GregWojtak at quickenloans.com<mailto:GregWojtak at quickenloans.com>> wrote:

Am I missing something or is there a way to only download rpm's that are newer than, say, the 5.3 release?  Basically all the updates (only) since then?  I was hoping to set it up in a similar manner to CentOS with a base channel as the release and then a child channel for updates.  How are you doing it?  Just one monolithic RHEL5 channel?

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ditto, thanks Rob, I'm up to glibc-2.3...... and counting

rhnget is pulling every single minor revision, sheesh :_)

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I figured it out - I grabbed the 0.8.6 source and simply did make install, and this includes the proper libraries.  I'm off and running now, just need to wait for updates to download.  Thanks!

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How did you install mrepo? using 'make install' or an RPM, or other?

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I've tried this, but get:
# gensystemid -u <myrhnusername> -p '<myrhnpassword>' --release=4ES --arch=i386 /opt/apps/spacewalk/mrepo/4ES-i386

And get a python traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gensystemid", line 8, in ?
    from up2date_client import config, rpcServer, up2dateErrors
ImportError: No module named up2date_client

Any ideas?

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Thanks Rob, I'll give that a try. I have a whole drawer full of EL4 workstation entitlements, so that won't be a problem.

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As long as you have entitlements RHEL is easy.

Use mrepo to download the files. Here's my quick document on it.


- tar xvf mrepo-0.8.6.tar
- cd mrepo-0.8.6/ && make install
- cp rhel4es.conf /etc/mrepo.conf.d
- cp mrepo.conf /etc/
- vi /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources
        - add : up2date default
- add up2date-uuid
        - uuidgen
        - vi /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date-uuid/
                - add: rhnuuid=4a9179f7-b462-497e-b40a-1876df68a530
5. Generate SystemIDs'
        - gensystemid -u <RHNLogin> -p <RHNPassword> --release=4ES
--arch=i386 /opt/apps/spacewalk/mrepo/4ES-i386/
        - gensystemid -u <RHNLogin> -p <RHNPassword>  --release=4AS
--arch=x86_64 /opt/apps/spacewalk/mrepo/4AS-x86_64/

6. Download Content
        - rhnget --download-all -s /opt/apps/spacewalk/mrepo/4ES-i386/systemid
-vv rhns:///rhel-i386-es-4 /opt/apps/spacewalk/rpms/rhel4es-i386/



On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 10:54 -0400, Wojtak, Greg wrote:
> I think I have a plan for RHEL.  I will try and piece it together and
> let you all take a look and see what you think.
>
>
>
> From:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mike Hanby
> Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 10:51 AM
> To: 'spacewalk-list at redhat.com<mailto:'spacewalk-list at redhat.com>'
> Subject: RE: [Spacewalk-list] reposync RHEL repositories on Centos
> Spacewalk
>
>
>
>
> Here's what I do to allow me to download multiple distros /
> architectures on my spacewalk server.
>
>
>
> My spacewalk server is running CentOS 5 x86_64.
>
>
>
> say I stage everything in /var/www/html/pub/<distro>-<arch> as
> suggested in the wiki, for example CentOS5-x86_64, i'll create
> a /var/www/html/pub/CentOS5-i386/yum.conf file
> and /var/www/html/pub/CentOS5-i386/yum.repos.d and directory.
>
>
>
> I then customize the yum.conf to point to the customized repo files
> and a different cache directory / log file:
>
> reposdir=/var/www/html/pub/CentOS5-i386/yum.repos.d
>
> cachedir=/var/cache/yum-i386
>
> logfile=/var/log/yum-i386.log
>
>
>
> My reposync commands for CentOS5-i386 start like this:
>
> reposync --config=/var/www/html/pub/CentOS5-i386/yum.conf --arch=i686
> --repoid=centos5-base
>
>
>
> I tried using the existing /etc/yum.conf and /etc/yum.repos.d and
> couldn't consistently download the entire set of files and ultimately
> found that if I hard coded the URLs in the repo files, everything
> worked, for example:
>
>
>
> [centos5-base]
>
> name=CentOS-5 - Base i386
>
> mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=i386&repo=os
>
>
>
> When I decided to add CentOS 4 x86_64 channels to the spacewalk
> server, it was simple to duplicate the configuration used for
> CentOS5-i386 and make the slight changes to the yum.repos.d files.
>
>
>
> As for RHEL4, I'm still trying to come up with a solution for them, I
> may end up converting them to CentOS4.
>
>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> From:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Wojtak, Greg
> Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 9:03 AM
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> Subject: RE: [Spacewalk-list] reposync RHEL repositories on Centos
> Spacewalk
>
>
>
>
> The only other thing I can think of is to use the –n(?) option to only
> grab the newest RPM’s, compare against what’s on the latest DVD iso,
> and then only rhnpush what’s not there into an updates channel the
> same way CentOS does.
>
>
>
> Is there a good way to compare two rpm’s and see which one is newer?
> I tried coming up with a regular expression to grab the version out of
> the filename for comparison, but it is not very reliable.
>
>
>
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> [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Shao Ming
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> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] reposync RHEL repositories on Centos
> Spacewalk
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> I am trying to avoid that. I hope to hv all reposync, be it RHEL
> Centos Fedora, to be done on the same Spacewalk box. I'm sure that is
> possible but I can't seem to locate the info in this list...
>
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Wojtak, Greg
> <GregWojtak at quickenloans.com<mailto:GregWojtak at quickenloans.com>> wrote:
>
> Here's what I did:
>
> On my RHEL servers (with valid rhn subscriptions), I installed and ran
> reposync for the appropriate RHN repositories I needed for my
> environment.  I then rhnpush'ed those - for RHEL 5 it was a total of
> 5353 packages and for x86_64 it was 7000+.  I don't have any better
> idea how to manage those, and I am still trying to figure out how I am
> going to manage them going forward.  But at least I have a consistent
> set... for now.
>
>
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> [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Alexandros
> Soumplis
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> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] reposync RHEL repositories on Centos
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> Hi!
>
> Ok, i understand. Well I do not use any RHEL clients on my spacewalk
> infrastructure to be more helpful but I am more than convinced that
> you
> need to have a valid rhn subscription and then configure yum
> appropriately
> to connect to rhn repos as well. However it would be better if someone
> else on the list with rhel client can shred more light :-)
>
>
>
> > Hi Soumplis,
> >
> > thanks for the quick reply. I think I was not too clear in my
> earlier
> > e-mail. I apologise.
> >
> > Currently, I have a mix of Centos and RHEL boxes. I have managed to
> use
> > reposync to download packages for Centos and rhnpush to Spacewalk.
> My
> > Spacewalk is installed on a Centos.
> >
> > What I am having problem is wondering how to reposync with RHEL
> packages?
> > Do
> > I create a rhel repo at /etc/yum.repos.d/? Do I need a rhn
> subscription
> > account? I'm lost on this part.
> >
> > thanks
> > Shao Ming
> >
> >
> > 2009/6/24 Alexandros Soumplis <soumplis at ekt.gr<mailto:soumplis at ekt.gr>>
> >
> >> I think you make a mistake. As long as your clients are CentOS
> boxes
> >> then
> >> you need to use reposync on your spacewalk server to download
> CentOS
> >> packages from a CentOS repository. Reposync uses your existing yum
> >> configuration and repositories. After you've downloaded the
> packages you
> >> can use rhnpush to push those packages into spacewalk repository.
> There
> >> are lots of information on the wiki and on this list archives.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > just started on spacewalk and need some answers/helps.
> >> >
> >> > I have manged to to create Software channels for my Centos 5.x
> >> clients. I
> >> > also have a few RHEL boxes and hope to point them to spcewalk
> also.
> >> Can
> >> > someone explain how I can use the reposync to download packages
> from
> >> rhn
> >> > and
> >> > push them to spacewalk?
> >> > I do not have any 'rhel' repoid in my Centos install.
> >> >
> >> > thanks
> >> > Shao Ming
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