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

Tue Nov 24 22:41:25 UTC 2009

Robert,

RHN Satellite != Spacewalk

There are a lot of similarities but they are not the same, esp. when
dealing with RHEL products.

CC

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:33 AM, Robert Kuropkat
<rkuropkat at t-sciences.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- 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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