[Spacewalk-list] Groupinstall in Spacewalk

[Paul Robert Marino]

Forget what you read on the wiki.

In most cases that is accidentally true because that how most of the
tools that create repositories structure them; but you are really
supposed to point it at the directory with the repodata subdirectory.
In the case of RHEL, Fedora, and all of their derivative distributions
its the root of the DVD
also I don't know that the file:/ syntax will work I've never tried it.
what I do is I created a directory /var/httpd/html/isomount I always
mount the iso to that directory then I point the repo to
http://<hostname>/isomount this works well for me.

also please point me to the page on the wiki where you read that. I
will write a correction or clarify it if that's really what the wiki
says.


On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 6:46 AM, Amitakhya Phukan
<aphukan at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> But that way, it can't populate the RPMs. The wiki page said I must point
> the repository to the folder containing the RPMs as it will not descend into
> directories.
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 1:38 AM, Paul Robert Marino <prmarino1 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> 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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