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

[Paul Robert Marino]

Franky
you just love to advertise, don't you lol.


On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 4:45 AM, Franky Van Liedekerke
<liedekef at telenet.be> wrote:
> On 2013-01-15 08:18, Pierre Casenove wrote:
>
> Hello Paul,
> Thanks, now the script works.
> But, I think that there is still an issue though, sorry!
> First, a question about options "rewritereleasefrom" and "rewritereleaseto":
> centos does not publish all their packages with a modified release. Does
> your script searches for the regular release (1.el6 for example), and if it
> fails, searches for the alternate release (1.el6.centos)? Or does it
> searches only for the alternate release?
> Now, the bug I found. Take errata RHSA-2013:0144 published for firefox. It
> is associated with the following packages:
> firefox-10.0.12-1.el6_3.i686.rpm
> firefox-10.0.12-1.el6_3.x86_64.rpm
> xulrunner-10.0.12-1.el6_3.i686.rpm
> xulrunner-10.0.12-1.el6_3.x86_64.rpm
> xulrunner-devel-10.0.12-1.el6_3.i686.rpm
> xulrunner-devel-10.0.12-1.el6_3.x86_64.rpm
> Notice that the release is set to "1.el6-3".
> Centos have published the following packages:
> firefox-10.0.12-1.el6.centos.i686
> firefox-10.0.12-1.el6.centos.x86_64
> xulrunner-10.0.12-1.el6.centos.i686
> xulrunner-10.0.12-1.el6.centos.x86_64
> xulrunner-devel-10.0.12-1.el6.centos.i686
> xulrunner-devel-10.0.12-1.el6.centos.x86_64
> The release is only "1.el6.centos".
>
> That's exactly why I don't like to base my info for CentOS errata on Redhat
> errata. I always said to get CentOS errata from the CentOS mailing list (see
> my github for the script) and optionally go to Redhat for extra info (like
> the description).
> I NEVER rely on the fact that Redhat and CentOS provide the same errata
> packages (or heck, even keep the same errata numbers).
> For those interested, my script  does get the info from the CentOS mailing
> list (from the digest, to minimize traffic), and can optionally connect to
> RHN for extra info. Also no problem with proxies, and the same script can be
> used for Redhat and CentOS errata. See
> https://github.com/liedekef/spacewalk_scripts
>
> Franky
>
>
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