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

[Jan Dobes]

Hello,

plan is to release Spacewalk 2.6 in a month.

On 5.10.2016 18:32 Ahmed Sajid wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Jan, thanks for the patch! I assume this will be part of Spacewalk 2.6 release. Do we have a date for the release yet?
>
> Tony, I am doing the following:
>
> cd /var/cache/rhn/reposync/rhel-6-x86_64/
> gunzip c98304f7c9e142a93ff1ef2ef8b70a4ca06fdca3f71efc49bf7e3cdd57cec29c-updateinfo.xml
> sed -i 's/=\([0-9]*\)\(" type="bugzilla" id="\)RH[BSE]A-[0-9]\{4\}:[0-9]\{4\}/=\1\2\1/' c98304f7c9e142a93ff1ef2ef8b70a4ca06fdca3f71efc49bf7e3cdd57cec29c-updateinfo.xml
> # update repomd.xml with new updateinfo.xml
> modifyrepo /var/cache/rhn/reposync/rhel-6-x86_64/c98304f7c9e142a93ff1ef2ef8b70a4ca06fdca3f71efc49bf7e3cdd57cec29c-updateinfo.xml /var/cache/rhn/reposync/rhel-6-x86_64/repodata
>
> And then run spacewalk-repo-sync
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Thanks,
> Ahmed.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jan Dobes
> Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2016 11:40 AM
> To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Unable to sync Red Hat errata incorrect metadata
>
> 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
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