[Spacewalk-list] Custom child channel and spacewalk-repo-sync on 1.0

[Michael Mraka]

James Hogarth wrote:
% On 11 May 2010 02:41, Daniel Wittenberg <dwittenberg2008 at gmail.com> wrote:
% > Do you mean the last sync time?  There isn't one since there's a CLI script that does it, modified from the docs on syncing rpmforge/epel.
% >
% > The taskomaticd is running if that's the one you mean
% >
% > There are a few older errors "Error com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.RepoSyncTask - Content Source could not be found:  521"
% >
% > I did change the local repo to a URl, and trying to sync that way, and it says "Sync scheduled" but the checkbox on the "Sync repo" goes away on page refresh and it doesn't actually sync.
% >
% > If I sync manually, the packages show up, but doesn't actually work.
% >
% > Dan
% >
% 
% Internally to spacewalk-repo-sync and rhnpush use the same API? I
% can't recall if there are internal differences between them...

No, spacewalk-repo-sync pushes packages directly to database nad
filesystem (thus must be run on spacewalk server locally) while rhnpush
uses XMLRPC API and can be run from another box.

% As a test (to determine a spacewalk or other issue) might be worth
% using rhnpush to push packages into a channel and then seeing if
% taskomatic kicks off the repo generation properly.
% 
% James

Regards,

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Michael Mráka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat