[Spacewalk-list] Changing Repo Cache Checksum via API

[Broekman, Maarten]

Nevermind.  It seems that the channel being synced doesn't have a checksum type set on the source server.  Initially, I thought all the channel checksums were being reset when any channel was synchronized, but that was a misunderstanding.

--Maarten

>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-
>  bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Michael Mraka
>  Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 5:28 AM
>  To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
>  Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Changing Repo Cache Checksum via API
>  
>  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,
>  
>  --
>  Michael Mráka
>  Satellite Engineering, Red Hat
>  
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