Re: [Spacewalk-list] Mutli distro kickstart issue.
Look at candlepin and subscription manager on a host registered with Red Hat its actually fairly obvious how to do it with Spacewalk 2.x. The reason I am not specifically telling any one how to do it is I just don't know if I would be violating any NDA's and or support agreements if I wrote a guide on how to do it. Also a possible alternative I havent had time to fully investigate is this https://github.com/splice/spacewalk-splice-tool It's used in the latest version of RHN Satellite 5.x. The one problem is that SAM is compiled against Jboss 6 and spacewalk is compiled against jpackage 5 so the cant be on the same host. Although in theory if spacewalk could be compiled against Jpackage 6 or even better Jboss 6 they should be able to run on the same host. Essentially what it does is it syncronizes Spacewalk with SAM is the stripped down core of Satellite 6 (its equivalent to a spacewalk proxy) so in theory it could allow you to have the best of both worlds. My only problem with it is for some reason it needs Mogodb which I find odd since both Spacewalk and SAM use PostgreSQL. On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Boyd, Robert robert.b...@peoplefluent.com wrote: Paul Robert Marino, This sounds intriguing. You say you hesitate to write it out completely. I'm wondering if you could give some hints as to how to start the little research. There are a couple of things you've mentioned before where you've said something like this about issues I'm interested in. I could definitely use some hints about how to pursue things like this. What tools/knowledge are required to start? And where does one begin from? I find it's easy to wind up chasing down many rabbit holes with little return other than learning about a great many things I don't need much for the time spent without some guidance. Thanks, Robert Boyd Sr. Systems Engineer PeopleFluent p. 919-645-2972 | c. 919-306-4681 e. robert.b...@peoplefluent.com Visit: www.peoplefluent.com | Read: Peoplefluent Blog | Follow: @peoplefluent | Download: iPad App -Original Message- From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Paul Robert Marino Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2014 1:57 PM To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Mutli distro kickstart issue. ... Unfortunately the core API issue has never been fixed althouth the new method of syncing erratas via the yum repo does not seem to be effected by this so where possible try to use that method instead. the problem is CentOS hasn't adopted this method and I'm not sure about Oracle. RHEL its pretty easy now to get the erratas using the new method if you do a little research although I hesitate to write it out for you completely. ... On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Canalichio, Kevin canalic...@jmail.metronaviation.com wrote: I have set up my spacewalk server to have Redhat, Centos, and Oracle linux distros available for kickstart. When kickstarting I will get the following error: “ The file libart_lgpl-2.3.20-5.1.el6.x86_64 cannot be opened. This is due to a missing file, a corrupted package or corrupted media.” The problem occurs because the md5 checksums are different for the same package name in the each of the different distros. I read somewhere that the satellite server uses some sort of dedup or links to not have multiple copies of the same file, which seems to work fine for updates, but not so well for kickstarts. I can fix this problem by clearing out all three the repos and resyncing the one I want to kickstart. But it take a while for the repo to rsync. I have also found this bug report that no one seems to be working on http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=6977 which references this from the archive https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/2014-February/msg00048. html Has anyone else seen this, or have a better work around? ___ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list ___ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list ___ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list ___ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
Re: [Spacewalk-list] Mutli distro kickstart issue.
Paul Robert Marino, This sounds intriguing. You say you hesitate to write it out completely. I'm wondering if you could give some hints as to how to start the little research. There are a couple of things you've mentioned before where you've said something like this about issues I'm interested in. I could definitely use some hints about how to pursue things like this. What tools/knowledge are required to start? And where does one begin from? I find it's easy to wind up chasing down many rabbit holes with little return other than learning about a great many things I don't need much for the time spent without some guidance. Thanks, Robert Boyd Sr. Systems Engineer PeopleFluent p. 919-645-2972 | c. 919-306-4681 e. robert.b...@peoplefluent.com Visit: www.peoplefluent.com | Read: Peoplefluent Blog | Follow: @peoplefluent | Download: iPad App -Original Message- From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Paul Robert Marino Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2014 1:57 PM To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Mutli distro kickstart issue. ... Unfortunately the core API issue has never been fixed althouth the new method of syncing erratas via the yum repo does not seem to be effected by this so where possible try to use that method instead. the problem is CentOS hasn't adopted this method and I'm not sure about Oracle. RHEL its pretty easy now to get the erratas using the new method if you do a little research although I hesitate to write it out for you completely. ... On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Canalichio, Kevin canalic...@jmail.metronaviation.com wrote: I have set up my spacewalk server to have Redhat, Centos, and Oracle linux distros available for kickstart. When kickstarting I will get the following error: “ The file libart_lgpl-2.3.20-5.1.el6.x86_64 cannot be opened. This is due to a missing file, a corrupted package or corrupted media.” The problem occurs because the md5 checksums are different for the same package name in the each of the different distros. I read somewhere that the satellite server uses some sort of dedup or links to not have multiple copies of the same file, which seems to work fine for updates, but not so well for kickstarts. I can fix this problem by clearing out all three the repos and resyncing the one I want to kickstart. But it take a while for the repo to rsync. I have also found this bug report that no one seems to be working on http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=6977 which references this from the archive https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/2014-February/msg00048. html Has anyone else seen this, or have a better work around? ___ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list ___ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list ___ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
[Spacewalk-list] Mutli distro kickstart issue.
I have set up my spacewalk server to have Redhat, Centos, and Oracle linux distros available for kickstart. When kickstarting I will get the following error: The file libart_lgpl-2.3.20-5.1.el6.x86_64 cannot be opened. This is due to a missing file, a corrupted package or corrupted media. The problem occurs because the md5 checksums are different for the same package name in the each of the different distros. I read somewhere that the satellite server uses some sort of dedup or links to not have multiple copies of the same file, which seems to work fine for updates, but not so well for kickstarts. I can fix this problem by clearing out all three the repos and resyncing the one I want to kickstart. But it take a while for the repo to rsync. I have also found this bug report that no one seems to be working on http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=6977 which references this from the archive https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/2014-February/msg00048.html Has anyone else seen this, or have a better work around? ___ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
Re: [Spacewalk-list] Mutli distro kickstart issue.
This is usually caused by errata synchronization tools. There is a known bug in the API for spacewalk ERRATA publishing which causes this. here is a link to a ticket which should give you a better idea of the background https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=834569 Essentially you have a channel cross contamination issue. what you need to do is remove all of the offending packages except the one written by the correct vendor from the channel. Its not a problem with deduplication its a problem with erratas spanning multiple base channels. I have RHEL, Scientific Linux and CentOS on my spacewalk servers and do not experience this issue. this issue is one of the many reasons I wrote my own errata sync tool here https://github.com/prmarino1/Extravehicular-Activity-Admin/tree/master/errata-tools I ran into this same issue with rhn-clone-errata.py and the centos version of the script which scrapes the centos mailing list as well. Unfortunately the core API issue has never been fixed althouth the new method of syncing erratas via the yum repo does not seem to be effected by this so where possible try to use that method instead. the problem is CentOS hasn't adopted this method and I'm not sure about Oracle. RHEL its pretty easy now to get the erratas using the new method if you do a little research although I hesitate to write it out for you completely. In any case my script and a few others should be able to do eratta syncs for you safely because 3 other developers and I all hit the same issue when we wanted to create errata sync scripts which spanned multiple base channels. In fact my script can even sync erratas from one base channel to an other on the same spacewalk server. so for CentOS in my test environment I've synced the erratas from my Scientific Linux channel to my CentOS channel. The down side is with syncing erratas from one distro to an other using the method in my script you may have incomplete erratas if the source distro ports a patch faster than the destination distro, but its at least safe from this issue. On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Canalichio, Kevin canalic...@jmail.metronaviation.com wrote: I have set up my spacewalk server to have Redhat, Centos, and Oracle linux distros available for kickstart. When kickstarting I will get the following error: “ The file libart_lgpl-2.3.20-5.1.el6.x86_64 cannot be opened. This is due to a missing file, a corrupted package or corrupted media.” The problem occurs because the md5 checksums are different for the same package name in the each of the different distros. I read somewhere that the satellite server uses some sort of dedup or links to not have multiple copies of the same file, which seems to work fine for updates, but not so well for kickstarts. I can fix this problem by clearing out all three the repos and resyncing the one I want to kickstart. But it take a while for the repo to rsync. I have also found this bug report that no one seems to be working on http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=6977 which references this from the archive https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/2014-February/msg00048.html Has anyone else seen this, or have a better work around? ___ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list ___ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
Re: [Spacewalk-list] Mutli distro kickstart issue.
Hi, On 2 Jul 2014, at 3:56 am, Paul Robert Marino prmari...@gmail.com wrote: Unfortunately the core API issue has never been fixed althouth the new method of syncing erratas via the yum repo does not seem to be effected by this so where possible try to use that method instead. the problem is CentOS hasn't adopted this method and I'm not sure about Oracle. Oracle provides errata via the yum repositories on ULN (using the new ULN sync mechanism) or via public-yum.oracle.com, so it should not be affected by this issue. Cheers, Avi -- Oracle http://www.oracle.com Avi Miller | Product Management Director | +61 (3) 8616 3496 Oracle Linux and Virtualization 417 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, Victoria 3004 Australia ___ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
