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

[Paul Robert Marino]

its ok I find it mildly amusing :-)

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:59 AM, Franky Van Liedekerke
<liedekef at telenet.be> wrote:
> Couldn't resist, sorry :-)
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> Franky
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> On 2013-01-17 01:36, Paul Robert Marino wrote:
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>> 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:
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>>> 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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