[Spacewalk-list] Groupinstall in Spacewalk

[Paul Robert Marino]

You point at the base directory of the DVD not the Packages sub directory.



On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Amitakhya Phukan
<aphukan at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Here is what I am doing. I too am not able to configure the group metadata
> on spacewalk.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 11:48 PM, Paul Robert Marino <prmarino1 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Here is a quick solution Mount the ISO to a directory served by a
>> webserver then point spacewalk to it as a repo then you will import the
>> comps.xml off the ISO.
>> Once you have it then you're good to go.
>>
>> Also by the way the new entitlements created for Red Hat by subscription
>> manager simply point yum to a PKI authenticated yum repo. Spacewalk 2.x
>> supports PKI authorize yum repos all you have to do is upload the 3
>> certificates. This is something you may want to think about. I personally
>> don't use mrepo any more its simply not needed and just complicates things.
>>
>>
>>
>> -- Sent from my HP Pre3
>>
>> ________________________________
>> On Mar 21, 2014 7:06, Michael Mraka <michael.mraka at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> ŚLIPEK Krzysztof wrote:
>> % Hello Michael,
>> % Thanks for your answer.
>> % But I'm using mrepo to synchronize with Red Hat and then use createrepo
>> and spacewalk-repo-sync to populate channel in Spacewalk.
>> % In this situation the only way is to create comps.xml manually?
>>
>> Hi Krzysztof,
>>
>> Unfortunately yes, either create it manually or ask mrepo developers to
>> add support
>> for comps.xml.
>>
>> % Regards,
>> % Chris
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> --
>> Michael Mráka
>> Satellite Engineering, Red Hat
>>
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>
>
>
> I have copied the entire contents of the DVD to /sw/rhel6.5/. For populating
> my channel, I have pointed the repository to file:///sw/rhel6.5/Packages as
> it is told that Spacewalk will not descend into directories. I have also run
> "createrepo -g comps.xml /sw/rhel6.5/Packages". Still the group information
> is not available. Where am I wrong ?
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Amitakhya Phukan
>
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