[Spacewalk-list] Switching from rhn-clone-errata to eva-direct-errata-sync

[Pierre Casenove]

Thanks a lot you the answers.
As the spacewalk server doesn't have access to the internet without the
authenticated proxy, it's kind of a no go.
If I have time, I'll try to work on your scruipt to get it proxy compatible.

Pierre


2012/12/19 Paul Robert Marino <prmarino1 at gmail.com>

> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 2:10 AM, Pierre Casenove <pcasenove at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I'm currently using rhn-clone-errate to sync RHN errata.
> > But we've recently added centos distribution, so I need to create errata
> for
> > centos as well.
> > I've been looking at eva-direct-errata, which seems really interesting
> but I
> > don't understand how it works.
> > - How can I configure a proxy to connect to RHN?
> Unfortunately I never put that in because I wasn't sure how to do that
> with the RPC module I'm using but I may add it in the future
>
> > - I have the following channels configured:
> > 1 - CentOS 5 Base with Cent0S 5 Updates as child channel
> > 2 - rhel 5 Server
> > 3 - RHEL 5 Workstation
> > 4 - CentOS 6 Base with CentOS 6 Updates as child channel
> > 5 - RHEL 6 Server with RHEL 6 optionnal as child channel
> > As I understand the script, I need to launch it 5 times, changing source
> > channels, dest channels and "rewirtepackagereleasefrom/to". Is it
> correct?
>
> Yes this is due to a bug in the spacewalk API,s
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=834569
> If the bug ever gets fixed I will release a version that can do it in
> one round. I've already written a version in my non public git repo
> but due to the spacewalk bug im not releasing it to the public yet
>
> > - Is it possible to put some configuration directives (such as
> user/password
> > information) in a config file?
> No not yet but you can use environment variables they are documented
> in the pod documentation
> use perldoc /path/to/script or pod2txt, pod2man. pod2... to read the
> documentation
> I highly suggest using the environment variables for now so your
> passwords don't show up in ps
>
> >
> > Thanks a lot for your help,
> >
> > Pierre
> >
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