[Spacewalk-list] Initial load of Red Hat channel...?

Robert Kuropkat rkuropkat at t-sciences.com
Tue Nov 24 01:51:26 UTC 2009


I seem to be missing something obvious.  I've installed Red Hat 5.2 (in 
a VirtualBox VM) and installed Spacewalk.  Now I need to create my first 
channel.  I downloaded Red Hat 5.2 and copied the ISO to the file system 
and tried:

satellite-sync --list-channels --mount-point /var/rhn-sat-import/rhel

It fails saying it is unable to process file 
/var/rhn-sat-import/rhel/channel_families/channel_families.xml

Sure enough, that file is not there.  I read the documentation on how to 
get the channel iso but it only gives me an iso without the channel 
information.  The documentation does not seem to exactly describe the 
web ui navigation through the RHN web site so I'm not sure if the 
documentation is slightly out of date and I am guessing wrong, or if 
there is some other detail I am missing.

I do also see the URL for repo sync in Spacewalk, but don't understand 
what the URL should be for Red hat version 5.2.  I put in this:

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/

And it said repository sync scheduled, but I see no evidence it actually 
did anything...  okay wait, before I hit send I went and looked again 
and it does look like it did something, just not what I wanted it to.  
So maybe the URL above is just incorrect?  How do I setup a local Red 
Hat 5.2 repo?

Any help appreciated.

Robert Kuropkat




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