[Spacewalk-list] Unable to sync Red Hat errata incorrect metadata

[Jan Dobes]

Hello,

I implemented workaround in spacewalk-repo-sync.

https://github.com/spacewalkproject/spacewalk/commit/47d82a693ac26a25970732c10aee8731eb92fe82

On 5.10.2016 17:25 Tony Dufour wrote:
> Dear Spacewalk users,
>
> For weeks now I'm unable to sync Red Hat errata from RHSM, when I perform a reposync I have the following error:
> ERROR: invalid literal for int() with base 10: 'RHSA-2015:0087'
>
> There is an open bug at Red Hat since it seems to be a formatting issue on their side:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1354496
>
> But the bug has been opened for quite a month and still no solution.
> So I'm wondering if a workaround is possible since I really need to get and apply errata on my servers.
>
> As described on bug page, I'm able to find and modify the "corrupted" file, for example :
> /var/cache/rhn/reposync/rhel-6-x86_64/c98304f7c9e142a93ff1ef2ef8b70a4ca06fdca3f71efc49bf7e3cdd57cec29c-updateinfo.xml.gz
> Gunzip to XML > apply the sed command on bug page > gzip the XML back.
>
> But when I have this modified file in /var/cache/reposync I don't know if there's a way to push the errata into my Spacewalk ?
> Or maybe another workaround is possible ?
>
> Any kind of idea or comment will be appreciated :)
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Tony
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Jan Dobes
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat