[Spacewalk-list] Initial load of Red Hat channel...?
Robert Kuropkat
rkuropkat at t-sciences.com
Tue Nov 24 02:37:40 UTC 2009
yea, in the little reading I recall on it, I gave it a confused dog look
and just hoped I did not really need that. So I'll look a little harder
at it unless this other thing actually works accidentally. But it
sounds like even though I am getting nearly 4,000 packages it is still
only part of what I need.
Thanks for the info...
Colin Coe wrote:
> 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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