[Spacewalk-list] Using mrepo with Spacewalk 1.8

[Snyder, Chris]

This file is usually automatically created when you install your spacewalk server per the usual installation guides.  It's usually installed under that path.  Additionally, it's rolled up as an rpm under /var/www/html/pub (at least under RHEL5).  

Now, if you need to directly create the file, you can run the command 'rhn-ssl-tool' on your spacewalk server.  However, I'm not sure exactly what this script does as I've not called it directly, however I know it is responsible for generating your self-signed SSL certs for the spacewalk server and I believe this is what is actually called during the normal spacewalk server installation tools.

If you are running this on a host that is NOT your spacewalk server, i.e. a spacewalk client, then that should have been installed as part of the bootstrap process to add that client to spacewalk (I'm assuming you didn't kickstart this host from spacewalk).  For an example of a client bootstrap script look under /var/www/html/pub/bootstrap or run the command 'rhn-bootstrap' on the spacewalk server.

Thx
Gopher.

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Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 11:58 AM
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Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Using mrepo with Spacewalk 1.8

This is the way I understood it initially, but doesn't answer my first question.  Gensystemid will not work without this file: /usr/share/rhn/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT.  I still don't know how I acquire the certificate.

"[root at server ~]# gensystemid -u xxx -p xxx --release=5Server --arch=x86_64 /var/satellite/mrepo/rhel-server-5/
ERROR: can not find RHNS CA file:: /usr/share/rhn/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT"


On Jan 23, 2013, at 2:48 AM, Tom Brown <tom at ng23.net> wrote:

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>> If you follow the link on the mrepo project page (http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/mrepo/) it specifically says to use gensystemid when creating local repositories.  If I try to sync it fails because there are no rhn ids for the directories I want to sync to, which is what I understand gensystemid is supposed to create.
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> you use gensystemid on the host that is going to be downloading the packages, this host can download packages for multiple channels, RHEL5, RHEL6 etc etc - This is used alongside the rhn creds that are actually used to login to rhn.
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> thanks
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