[Spacewalk-list] Using mrepo with Spacewalk 1.8

[Paul Brunck]

Thank you but I am still confused.  I have entered the rhn information in mrepo.conf which does not make any difference if the cert is not present.  The knowledge base link looks like a guide on how to create the cert to distribute to the systems which are registered to spacewalk once it is installed.  I think these files already exist at http://servername/pub.  I have tried installing that package but it does not help.  What I am trying to do is use mrepo on the spacewalk server to create a channel that contains consistently updated rhel packages, so maybe the problem is that I am going about this the wrong way?

On Jan 22, 2013, at 11:47 AM, Paul Robert Marino <prmarino1 at gmail.com>
 wrote:

> you can set a user name and password instead
> 
> ## Your username and password for RHN channel subscriptions
> #rhnlogin = username:password
> rhnlogin =
> 
> see https://github.com/dagwieers/mrepo/blob/master/config/mrepo-example.conf
> for full details
> 
> Also the SSL cert is included in an RPM in RHEL
> rhn-org-trusted-ssl-cert-<Version>.noarch.rpm
> see https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Network_Satellite/5.3/html/Client_Configuration_Guide/s2-certificate-tool-CA-create.html
> for details
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Paul Brunck
> <Paul.Brunck at healthlanguage.com> wrote:
>> I'm attempting to install Spacewalk 1.8 with mrepo and create a mirror of RHEL 5&6 packages to use for frequently spun up development VMs. There are several guides that indicate I should use mrepo with gensystemid to register individual repositories as systems on RHN and then use the entitlements granted to my rhel systems. However gensystemid fails because /usr/share/rhn/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT is not present. It's not clear to me where I get this cert, whether it is included with an official rhel install, or if it is pulled in after using rhn_register, or if this the "key" per se that you purchase with the Satellite product that allows you to mirror?  Thank you in advance for any help.
>> 
>> Paul Brunck
>> Health Language, Inc.
>> System Administrator
>> 
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