[Spacewalk-list] Antwort: Re: channels for SuSE - in spacewalk

Tue Aug 9 08:05:13 UTC 2016

This is an example of our SLES11 SP4 Pool repositoriy url. This is working

https://<ncc_mirror_user>:<ncc_mirror_creds>@nu.novell.com/repo/$RCE/SLES11-SP4-Pool/sle-11-x86_64/

Verify that you are using the "mirror credentials" from novell. This is 
not the credential you are logging in into the Novell customer center

Regards,
Robert

Von:    <jineesh.kotayi at accenture.com>
An:     <spacewalk-list at redhat.com>
Datum:  09.08.2016 09:53
Betreff:        Re: [Spacewalk-list] channels for SuSE  - in spacewalk
Gesendet von:   spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com

Hi Daryl,

We already tried this and not worked, same error.

Thanks & Regards,
Jineesh K

From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [
mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Daryl Rose
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2016 12:07 AM
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] channels for SuSE - in spacewalk

Jineesh,

Try removing the following from your string.

rpm/x86_64/

Daryl

From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com <spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com
> on behalf of jineesh.kotayi at accenture.com <jineesh.kotayi at accenture.com>
Sent: Monday, August 8, 2016 12:01 PM
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] channels for SuSE - in spacewalk 

Hi Daryl,

I have created the channel with the URL retrieved from the yast with 
username and password. The syncing is failing with below message in logs,

Sync started: Mon Aug  8 17:44:44 2016
['/usr/bin/spacewalk-repo-sync', '--channel', 'suse11sp3channel', 
'--type', 'yum']
Repo URL: 
https://username:password@nu.novell.com/repo/$RCE/SLES11-SP3-Updates/sle-11-x86_64/rpm/x86_64/
ERROR: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: 
suse11sp3channel. Please verify its path and try again
Sync completed.
Total time: 0:01:00

But we could see the its getting connected with wget command,

wget https:// username:password 
@nu.novell.com/repo/$RCE/SLES11-SP3-Updates/sle-11-x86_64/rpm/x86_64/ConsoleKit-0.2.10-64.2_64.69.1.x86_64.drpm
--2016-08-08 17:48:12--  
https://938a729642a8403eb436797eb9027703:*password*@nu.novell.com/repo//SLES11-SP3-Updates/sle-11-x86_64/rpm/x86_64/ConsoleKit-0.2.10-64.2_64.69.1.x86_64.drpm
Resolving nu.novell.com... 68.232.34.212
Connecting to nu.novell.com|68.232.34.212|:443... connected.

Thanks & Regards,
Jineesh K

From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [
mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Daryl Rose
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2016 9:25 PM
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] channels for SuSE - in spacewalk

The URL will be found in the "Configured Software Repositories" in YAST. 
Open up YAST find "Software Repositories" under the "Software" section. (I 
personally uses yast2, and pull the GUI back to my desktop using X 
windows.)

In YAST you'll see the URL string(s) for the various repositories.  Click 
the "Edit" button for the specific URL that you want. From the edit screen 
you need:
Server Name
Directory on Server
To construct the Repository URL within SW you need the credentials from 
the registered server, which can be found in 
/etc/zypp/credentials.d/NCCcredentials. 

Example of the URL:

https://<username>:<password>@<Server Name>/<Directory on Server>

Copy/paste all information that you collected into the Repository URL of 
the SLES Channel, and then run the sync. 

Hopefully this answered your question.

Daryl

From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com <spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com
> on behalf of jineesh.kotayi at accenture.com <jineesh.kotayi at accenture.com>
Sent: Monday, August 8, 2016 9:16 AM
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] channels for SuSE - in spacewalk 

Hi Daryl,

Thanks for the details.

We have the License for SuSE servers. What I am requesting here is, what 
is the URL and where I have to put the credentials while creating the 
channels for SuSE in SW.

Thanks & Regards,
Jineesh K

From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [
mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Daryl Rose
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2016 7:42 PM
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] channels for SuSE - in spacewalk

Jineesh,

This is correct. You have to have properly licensed servers to be able to 
access the repositories.

The reason why I am using SW is because I have both RHEL and SLES servers 
in my environment.  I evaluated purchasing Red Hat Satellite server and 
SuSE Package Management Server.  However, I cannot afford purchasing both 
products and licenses all of my systems, so I opted for Spacewalk. 
Spacewalk is the upstream development for both platforms and I can have a 
single pain of glass for both environments. 

I could make either RH Satellite or SuSE Management Server work for both, 
but I would have to setup a PULP server to proxy the packages from one 
environment to the other.  I tested that scenario, and it was a major 
pain.  Going the SW direction seems to be the best option.  I registered 
my SW server with Red Hat, and then a couple of servers with SuSE, who's 
sole purpose is to access the repositories.   I now am able to manage both 
RHEL and SLES environments from a single SW server.  Very easy and works 
great.  But again, you need to license and register servers with SuSE to 
access the repositories.

Daryl

From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com <spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com
> on behalf of Robert Paschedag <robert.paschedag at web.de>
Sent: Sunday, August 7, 2016 11:34 PM
To: jineesh.kotayi at accenture.com
Cc: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] channels for SuSE - in spacewalk 

You can find the URL links within your Novell account settings.

Put your credentials directly into the URL

Regards
Robert
Am 05.08.2016 15:41 schrieb jineesh.kotayi at accenture.com:
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> From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [
mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Daryl Rose
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> To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] channels for SuSE - in spacewalk
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register one server per service pack with SuSE.  For example, I have 
servers that are on both SLES 11 SP3 and SLES 11 SP4.  I built two servers 
specifically just to register to SuSE.  One was registered to the SLES 11 
SP3 SuSE repository and the other was registered to the SLES 11 SP4
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registered credentials in the "Repository URL" of the Repository Details 
page in Spacewalk.   The credentials can be found in 
/etc/zypp/credentials.d/NCCcredentials of the server that you would 
register with SuSE.
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> From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com <
spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com> on behalf of 
jineesh.kotayi at accenture.com <jineesh.kotayi at accenture.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 3, 2016 2:17 PM
> To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] channels for SuSE - in spacewalk
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> From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [
mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Daryl Rose
> Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2016 7:36 PM
> To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] channels for SuSE - in spacewalk
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> Jineesh,
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> I was wondering if you were able to get SLES 11 channel setup?  I 
successfully setup SLES 11 and am in the process of moving all of my 
servers from SCC to my Spacewalk environment.
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spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com> on behalf of 
jineesh.kotayi at accenture.com <jineesh.kotayi at accenture.com>
> Sent: Thursday, June 2, 2016 8:19 AM
> To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] channels for SuSE - in spacewalk
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> Anybody knows the steps to create channel for Enterprise SuSE 11 boxes
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> Sent: Monday, May 30, 2016 7:47 PM
> To: 'spacewalk-list at redhat.com' <spacewalk-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: [Spacewalk-list] channels for SuSE - in spacewalk
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channels for Redhat and CentOS.
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help us to share the documents to create the channels for SuSE as we are 
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