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

[Paul Robert Marino]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 1:48 AM, Pierre Casenove <pcasenove at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Paul.
> First, thanks a lot for this hint, now it works... but with a little twist:
> as I'm setting environment variables, I use proxy to connect to RHN AND to
> my local spacewalk server...
> How could I unset PROXY variables for Spacewalk, and not for RHN?
I haven't looked into it yet but I think this is a limitation LWP
inherits from one of it many dependencies. It will take time for me to
investigate it there is a workaround but your solution using HTTP for
the local connection and HTTPS to rhn may be the only practical
workaround right now.
> By the way, great script, it works like a charm (except this proxy setting!)
>
> I still have three questions:
> - For Centos, I have a base channel named Centos 6 Base and a child channel
> for the updates. Can your script find packages in both?
yes it can
> - For RHEL channels: Do i have to call the script twice to get erratas from
> RHEL 6 Server channels and RHEL 6 Optionnal channel, or does your script
> automatically find everything when calling it and specifying the rhel 6
> server channel?
No it will scan all channels on the source you have access to under
the base channel

> - I'm planning to call the script once a day, with the "startfromprevious"
> option. Imagine the following case, which happens quite frequently: RedHat
> publishes a RHSA with the associated packages on day 1. The next night, I'm
> going the download the package and create the errata for RHEL. But  from
> centos, it happens that the packages are not yet available (they are
> published a few days after). Your script will skip the errata creation for
> centos... but even when the package will be available, the errata will never
> be re-created, as it starts with the last launch date. How can I address
> this?
I usually use startfromprevious with month with scientific linux and
year with Centos because it doesn't take that much longer and resolves
this for both distros

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> Thanks in advance,
>
> Pierre
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> 2013/1/4 Paul Robert Marino <prmarino1 at gmail.com>
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