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

Robert Kuropkat rkuropkat at t-sciences.com
Tue Nov 24 16:33:43 UTC 2009 

now see, that almost makes sense.  It does not appear to be what the 
documentation actually says, though maybe I am misreading it.  it talks 
about copying the files from the ISO and then goes right to the 
satellite-sync import.  I'm on page 47 of the install guide and rhnpush 
has not even been mentioned yet.  Perhaps the Channel Management guide 
is more detailed and I should skip to it...

Robert Kuropkat


Josh.Mullis at cox.com wrote:
> The ISO's they are speaking of are the same one you downloaded on your first thread.
>
> They are saying that to save time, download the iso, mount it, and import into spacewalk via the rhnpush utility.
>
> This means it will not take as long to sync the channel from RHN via the rhnget command, because most of the packages are already there.
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com <spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com>
> To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com <spacewalk-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Tue Nov 24 11:07:25 2009
> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Initial load of Red Hat channel...?
>
>
> I still need to look into these packages.  Last night I accidentally 
> imported 3817 packages on accident, not exactly sure what.  I guess part 
> of what is irritating me is the following paragraph from the Satellite 
> Server Installation guide:
>
> The Red Hat Network Channel Content ISOs or RHN Satellite Exporter data 
> must be available, or the Satellite must have access to the Internet and 
> the RHN website.
>
> Although it is possible to conduct the import directly from the RHN 
> website, this should be done only if Channel Content ISOs are not 
> available. It takes a long time to populate a channel from scratch over 
> the Internet. For this reason, Red Hat urges you to use ISOs, if they 
> are available, for initial import.
>
> So how the hell does one get the "Red hat Network Channel Content 
> ISOs"?  I have a valid RHN login but the iso's I download don't seem to 
> have the Channel Content info?  Or am I just on crack?  I mean I try not 
> to read documentation very often but would appreciate it to be correct 
> when I do bother... :-)
>
> Robert
>
>
> Josh.Mullis at cox.com wrote:
>   
>> Look into rhnget and gensystemid from the mrepo package.
>>
>>
>> You can use that to sync the rhel rpms locally, then use rhnpush to import into spacewalk.
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com <spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com>
>> To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com <spacewalk-list at redhat.com>
>> Sent: Mon Nov 23 21:37:40 2009
>> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Initial load of Red Hat channel...?
>>
>>
>> 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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