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

[Robert Kuropkat]

hmmm... Well that makes a little more sense I guess.  I think it did/is 
syncing the epel repo, which is of course not what I wanted but would 
imply that process would work if I can dredge up the correct url.

I did see something about spacewalk-repo-sync but I think that requires 
a URL as well, not local media.

I do seem to have a sync process running, so I am not sure if it is 
because I clicked on the sync button multiple times or what.  Nothing is 
showing up in the Schedule tab in Space walk under pending, failed, 
completed or archived so I don't really understand what state this 
process is in.  There is a /var/log/rhn/rhn_taskomatic_daemon.log file 
that is showing a lot of hibernate and java null pointer errors so that 
does not seem promising.

Actually, it looks like something might be happening now, I might have 
just been impatient.  There is now file in /var/log/rhn/reposync that is 
growing and shoes 754/3817.... and my little VM has gotten sluggish as 
hell.  So maybe it is downloading everything for a complete RH 5.2?

Of course, that kinda sucks because I was about to give up and go home.  
Now I have to stay and wait it out :-/

Robert

P.S.  What is mrepo and what did you not like about it?  I thought I saw 
that mentioned somewhere in my reading but don't recall now...



Colin Coe wrote:
> My understanding is that satellite-sync does not work with Sapcewalk
> but I'm not 100% on that.
>
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/ is the location for
> EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux), not for RHEL.
>
> a minute or two after clicking sync repo, do a 'ps -ef | grep sync' to
> see if you have any spacewalk-repo-sync processes running.  I think
> the logs are under /var/satellite/sync_repo or something similar.
>
> I ended up using mrepo to do this but I was less than happy with it.
>
> CC
>
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Robert Kuropkat
> <rkuropkat at t-sciences.com> wrote:
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>> 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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