[Spacewalk-list] spacecmd usage

[aron at redhat.com]

The web UI can definitely do what you want regarding syncing packages.  However, the APIs 
around synchronizing packages between systems seems to be lacking a little bit now that I
look at it.  The API calls to create and compare package profiles are good and spacecmd already 
implements those.  system.scheduleSyncPackagesWithSystem could probably be used to do what you
want, but the fact that you have to pass it a list of package IDs seems a little odd; I guess 
you would get the package list from the system you want to sync with and then pass that list, 
but that shouldn't really be necessary since you're already passing both system IDs.

As for errata, the way you described is probably the only way to do it.  This could be implemented
as a function in spacecmd and probably wouldn't be too difficult.

I'll try to take a look at implementing these in spacecmd for you as they do seem useful.

/aron

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marco Shaw" <marco.shaw at gmail.com>
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Sent: Friday, December 3, 2010 9:57:34 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: [Spacewalk-list] spacecmd usage

May be sending to rhn-satellite-users also.

I'm in a particular situation where I need to get a list of packages
from system A, and apply the same set of packages on system B.  I'm
thinking if I can manage this from the command-line using spacecmd,
this will be a more efficient and repeatable process.

spacecmd can list what RPMs are on a system, but doesn't seem to be
able to list what errata has been applied to a system (it can only
list *outstanding* errata?), so I can take that errata list, and apply
that against system B.  Which this last part would seem easy enough
with spacecmd...

I can likely dump all the packages on system A, and grep through the
'spacecmd errata_details' output to build my errata list, but I'd like
to know if there's a more efficient way, than this...

I don't think I could even get this applied errata list from the Satellite UI...

Any ideas?

Marco

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