[Spacewalk-list] Cloning channel from script

Wed May 13 14:24:46 UTC 2015

That’s the expected behavior of the spacewalk-create-channel tool as far as I can tell.  The tool reads files in /usr/share/rhn/channel_data to determine the RPM list that was create at issue date of a particular release (RHEL 6 Update 6 for example).  The tool will only work on channels that were on the distribution ISO and it looks like there’s some hidden syntactic sugar as well (from my local testing).  So you get only the package published at the time of release, no updates.

If you want to clone a channel and all the errata, you’re probably better off looking at spacewalk-clone-by-date.  You can provide a date to clone errata up to, and you can clone channels that aren’t part of the ISO (like rhn-tools).

The syntax is pretty simple spacewalk-clone-by-date –l RHT-channel my-channel –d DATE is the basics, and you can automate it with a config file (-m will print a sample file).  I wrote about using the tool for work:   http://blogs.dlt.com/content-workflow-rhn-satellite/

HTH,
Matt

Matt Micene
DLT Solutions
Solution Architect
RHCA# 100-002-435
Direct 703-773-1195

From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Darryl Baker
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 3:24 PM
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Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Cloning channel from script

I’ve been playing a bit with the spacewalk-create-channel command. Two things I’ve noticed:

You must specify the update level and there is no way that I can find to just select the “latest update.”

Then once I make the clone the GUI shows no errata in the new channel whereas when I make the clone through the RHSS console the channel has a list of them.

I would like to just say the latest update and see the errata attached to the clone. Anyone have any thoughts?

Regards,

Darryl

From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Darryl Baker
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 9:12 AM
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Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Cloning channel from script

I’m only doing a few hundred machines at the moment but we are growing fast. Scripts to modify the channels systems are using as well as making the channel clones would be great. Thank you for offering. If You would post the collection to GitHub, please.

Regards,

Darryl

From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com<mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com> [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Franky Van Liedekerke
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 1:04 AM
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I have several perl scripts that do all that: create new cloned channels, subscribe servers to the new channels, update kickstart profiles and activation keys.
Even a extra web interface in php and perl crontab to manage the patching of thousands of servers via spacewalk.
If interested, I can put them on github ...

Franky
Darryl Baker <darryl.baker at texturacorp.com<mailto:darryl.baker at texturacorp.com>> schreef op 11 mei 2015 17:08:53 CEST:
I’m using Red Hat Satellite 5.7. Each month I clone the distribution channels so I can have sets of machines at the identical patch level and those patches can be worked through the testing cycle before being applied in production. Currently I am doing this manually through the GUI. A mindless, time consuming thing. I would like to set up scripts to do this for me. Any clues on how to do this will be much appreciated.

Regards,

Darryl Baker
Textura Corporation
Linux Engineer Application Support
1405 Lake Cook Road
Deerfield, Illinois 60015
Office Phone - 847-235-8467
Email – darryl.baker at texturacorp.com<mailto:darryl.baker at texturacorp.com>
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