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

[Speagle, Andy]

If you have RHN access with enough system entitlements and want to sync RHEL content, you should look at the "mrepo" utility.  This will allow you to pull down RHEL content from RHN from which you can create yum repos.  You can then sync your Spacewalk channels with these repos.  

It's rather roundabout....but it works.  Good luck.

Andy
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-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Kuropkat <rkuropkat at t-sciences.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:51:26 
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com<spacewalk-list at redhat.com>
Subject: [Spacewalk-list] Initial load of Red Hat channel...?


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documentation is slightly out of date and I am guessing wrong, or if 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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