[Spacewalk-list] Changing Repo Cache Checksum via API

[Michael Mraka]

Broekman, Maarten wrote:
% Looking at the API docs for 1.2, I see where I can set the checksum type
% for a channel at creation time, but I don't see any API call for
% changing the checksum type.  Is there a call to do that?  The reason I'm
% asking is that every now and then I seem to lose the repo cache and need
% to rebuild it, but the checksum keeps getting set back to 'none'.

Hi Maarten,

could you describe exact steps where you see the error?

I tried:
* created channel with 'None' checksum
* added several packages there (via webUI)
* no repo metadata was generated:
  # ll /var/cache/rhn/repodata/zero-checksum/
  total 8
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 53 Feb 22 11:15 noyumrepo.txt
  # more /var/cache/rhn/repodata/zero-checksum/noyumrepo.txt 
  No repo will be generated for channel zero-checksum.
* changed Yum Repository Checksum Type to sha256
* repo metadata was generated:
  # ll /var/cache/rhn/repodata/zero-checksum/
  total 68
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20584 Feb 22 11:15 filelists.xml.gz
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19829 Feb 22 11:15 other.xml.gz
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1638 Feb 22 11:15 primary.xml.gz
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1033 Feb 22 11:15 repomd.xml
* when I got back to channel overview page Yum Repository Checksum Type
  was still sha256

I can't see any issue.

Regards,

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Michael Mráka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat