[Spacewalk-list] Exclude some packages/Include only somes packages in a software channel

[Michael Gliwinski]

On Thursday 24 Mar 2011 17:37:39 Baptiste AGASSE wrote:
> Before using spacewalk, i used cobbler to manage and mirror locally
> repositories like CentOS 5.x, EPEL... and i was abble to define what
> package i want to mirror (for example, EPEL repo have a lot of packages
> but i use only a few of them) and their dependencies.
> 
> I saw that spacewalk use cobbler for distros, but not for channel repo
> management.
> 
> So, my question is: Is it possible to filter which package to download
> from remote repository (with an "download only" or "exclude" condition) ?
> And, if not:
> Anybody have the same problem ?
> It will be included in future spacewalk version ?

Yes, I had the same problem.  In the meantime I hacked a plugin to spacewalk-
repo-sync to read includes from a config file, but it would be way better if 
support for reading and setting yum config options for spacewalk-repo-sync 
existed in Spacewalk natively.

I'm attaching the file in case you're interested, but I didn't have time to 
really think the design through, so it's a "quick & dirty" version (it's based 
on yum_src.py from Spacewalk).  Basically you have to put the file in 
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/spacewalk/satellite_tools/repo_plugins/ and 
put a config file (like subset of yum config with just includepkgs options in 
each repo section) in /etc/rhn/spacewalk-repo-sync-yum.conf and then you can 
run e.g.:

  spacewalk-repo-sync --channel=epel-5-i386 --type=yumsubset

(assuming you have epel-5-i386 channel with repository URL and GPG keys 
defined).

You also have to hunt down all dependencies and include them in includepkgs 
manually.  I started working on something to make this easier but so far lack 
the time to get anywhere with it.

Let me know if that works for you (I'm away next week but will respond as soon 
as I'm back).


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