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

[Robert Kuropkat]

I saw mrepo mentioned in some reading but didn't exactly grok what I was 
reading and you are the second to mention it, so I'll look into it.

Thanks


Speagle, Andy wrote:
> 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 documentation is slightly out of date and I am guessing wrong, or if 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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