Re: [Spacewalk-list] centos-errata.py package_dir value
On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 12:34:42PM +, Peter Purvis wrote: Thanks Ege, I've just tried against our updates repo, which it turns out is really out of date which in turn causes the script to fail as it can't find the packages. Will grab a more recent sync now and see if that works. Seems a bit counter intuitive that the packages are needed for the errata script to work? Perhaps someone can explain the process. Basically the script needs the package NVREA that spacewalk has in order to find the package and associate it with the errata. The only way to get this reliably is to extract it from the RPM itself. So you need the updates repo for this to work. In the past it was possible to search spacewalk itself using the package checksum to find packages. However, changes to the format of the centos-announce list (namely use of sha256 signatures) have broken this, at least for those of us with channels with their base signature type set to md5sum. Other posters to this list have indicated that changing the channel signature type makes all well again but I have yet to test this myself. Other approaches such as indexing /var/satellite directly have been proposed as well. I've yet to evaluate any of these. Regards, -- David NutterTel: +44 (0)131 650 4888 BioSS, JCMB, King's Buildings, Mayfield Rd, EH9 3JZ. Scotland, UK Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland (BioSS) is formally part of The James Hutton Institute (JHI), a registered Scottish charity No. SC041796 and a company limited by guarantee No. SC374831 ___ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
Re: [Spacewalk-list] centos-errata.py package_dir value
Hi, I use a local repo by setting up a cronjob as rsync -avrt --progress rsync://rsync.mirrorservice.org/mirror.centos.org/5/os/x86_64/ /var/www/html/repos/centos/5/os/x86_64/ and setting that package_dir to /var/www/html/repos/centos/5/os/x86_64/ Hope it helps, Ege On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 10:58 +, Peter Purvis wrote: If I'm reposyncing from a separate host, so the only place on the spacewalk server I actually have any packages is in /var/satellite what should I be setting the package_dir value to? If I use /var/satellite the script complains it can't find /var/satellite/package-ver.s.i.on.rpm but I don't really have any alternatives. I suppose my way around this would be to mount the remote repo store, but I'd rather avoid if possible. Thanks ___ 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] centos-errata.py package_dir value
Thanks Ege, I've just tried against our updates repo, which it turns out is really out of date which in turn causes the script to fail as it can't find the packages. Will grab a more recent sync now and see if that works. Seems a bit counter intuitive that the packages are needed for the errata script to work? Perhaps someone can explain the process. On 8 February 2012 11:59, Ege Turgay ege.tur...@maglabs.net wrote: ** Hi, I use a local repo by setting up a cronjob as rsync -avrt --progress rsync:// rsync.mirrorservice.org/mirror.centos.org/5/os/x86_64//var/www/html/repos/centos/5/os/x86_64/ and setting that package_dir to /var/www/html/repos/centos/5/os/x86_64/ Hope it helps, Ege On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 10:58 +, Peter Purvis wrote: If I'm reposyncing from a separate host, so the only place on the spacewalk server I actually have any packages is in /var/satellite what should I be setting the package_dir value to? If I use /var/satellite the script complains it can't find /var/satellite/package-ver.s.i.on.rpm but I don't really have any alternatives. I suppose my way around this would be to mount the remote repo store, but I'd rather avoid if possible. Thanks ___ Spacewalk-list mailing listSpacewalk-list@redhat.comhttps://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
