[Spacewalk-list] Errata

[Mike McCune]

David Nutter wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 03:00:03PM -0400, Frey, Evan wrote:
> 
>> I am currently running Spacewalk 0.5 on RH Server 5 and wanted to know if it
>> was possible to sync errata from my RHN account.  
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> I can't help with syncing errata from rhn.redhat.com but I
> recently wrote a script (rhn-centos-errata.py) that scrapes the
> "centos-announce" mailing list (either archives or daily digest) and
> creates appropriate (if rather basic) errata using the Spacewalk
> API. These imported errata include a URL which links to the RHN errata
> pages allowing, you can get the full info if you want it.
> 
> The script is heavily based on the handy rhn-tool script by Lars
> Jonsson, with some extra wrapper methods for the XMLRPC functions I
> needed.
> 
> If you want it, let me know. 

sounds like a good addition to our contrib scripts:

http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/spacewalk.git?p=spacewalk.git;a=tree;f=contrib;h=311279606a9e696842a14520b5a53f1fbbb71f06;hb=HEAD

if we get enough stuff in there we could package it as a 
spacewalk-contrib RPM.

Mike
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