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

[Franky Van Liedekerke]

Couldn't resist, sorry :-)

Franky

On 2013-01-17 01:36, Paul Robert Marino wrote:

> 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 [1] Franky
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