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

[Colin Coe]

I didn't like mrepo as:
a) I didn't find it at all intuitive
b) unless you do some fancy scripting you end up all the RHEL (and/or
EPEL) content twice on your filesystem

CC

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Robert Kuropkat
<rkuropkat at t-sciences.com> wrote:
>
> 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:
>>
>>>
>>> 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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>>
>>
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