Re: [Spacewalk-list] errata question

2009-12-02 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Looking at this script I had a couple questions: #All files for packages mentioned in the centos-announce postings #should reside in this directory. reposyncing the "updates" repo of #your fave centos release should do the trick package_dir=/centos-mirror/%(version)s.%(release)s/updates/%(arch)s/

Re: [Spacewalk-list] errata question

2009-12-02 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Anyone ever thought about turning the announcements automatically into an XML/RSS/ATOM feed, something that could be easily processed by end clients and pulled into spacewalk? Seems like that would simplify the process. Dan On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 08:09 -0600, Andy Speagle wrote: > On Tue, 2009-1

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Database Error - PXTSessions

2009-12-02 Thread Andy Speagle
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 11:30 -0600, John Hodrien wrote: > > > As an aside... if there was any interest in backporting this to > v0.6, I > > would be in favor of it. > > But then 0.7 is out RSN, so it'd seem like mostly wasted effort, no? > I might > be reading it wrong, but 0.7 sounds like a load

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Database Error - PXTSessions

2009-12-02 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, Andy Speagle wrote: As an aside... if there was any interest in backporting this to v0.6, I would be in favor of it. But then 0.7 is out RSN, so it'd seem like mostly wasted effort, no? I might be reading it wrong, but 0.7 sounds like a load of fix, and not a load of break

Re: [Spacewalk-list] spacewalk-repo-sync and cron

2009-12-02 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, li...@xistenz.org wrote: Quoting John Hodrien : On Tue, 1 Dec 2009, li...@xistenz.org wrote: HTTP Proxy? jh That was it. I assumed that spacewalk-repo-sync used the yum.conf configuration (which is configured for our proxy). Apparently, I needed to have the HTTP_PROX

[Spacewalk-list] 0.6 install issue - RHEL 5.3

2009-12-02 Thread Tom Brown
Trying to install 0.6 on a 5.3 Xen VM - i get the following Transaction Summary

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Database Error - PXTSessions

2009-12-02 Thread Andy Speagle
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 08:09 -0600, josh.mul...@cox.com wrote: > Andy, > > I believe this has to do with that issue that I had where I had to > apply a patch to the rhn.jar file. > > Search for my thread: > > "System Groups timesout" Ok, that definitely resolved the issue. What's hilarious ab

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Database Error - PXTSessions

2009-12-02 Thread Josh.Mullis
Andy, I believe this has to do with that issue that I had where I had to apply a patch to the rhn.jar file. Search for my thread: "System Groups timesout" Hope it helps. -Josh - Original Message - From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com Sent: Wed D

Re: [Spacewalk-list] spacewalk-repo-sync and cron

2009-12-02 Thread lists
Quoting John Hodrien : On Tue, 1 Dec 2009, li...@xistenz.org wrote: HTTP Proxy? jh That was it. I assumed that spacewalk-repo-sync used the yum.conf configuration (which is configured for our proxy). Apparently, I needed to have the HTTP_PROXY environment variable set in my script as

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Database Error - PXTSessions

2009-12-02 Thread Andy Speagle
On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 12:35 -0600, Jesus M. Rodriguez wrote: > On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Andy Speagle wrote: > > Hi all... > > > > I've had a problem rear its ugly head today.. and I'm loathe to explain > > it. Essentially, nearly anything I do in the WebUI times out. I've > > tracked it t

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Database Error - PXTSessions

2009-12-02 Thread Andy Speagle
On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 12:35 -0600, Jesus M. Rodriguez wrote: > On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Andy Speagle wrote: > > Hi all... > > > > I've had a problem rear its ugly head today.. and I'm loathe to explain > > it. Essentially, nearly anything I do in the WebUI times out. I've > > tracked it t

Re: [Spacewalk-list] spacewalk or satellite

2009-12-02 Thread Miroslav Suchý
Tom Brown wrote: So i need to decide on which is 'best' for us - ... What i need to know is is it possible to simply have the spacewalk server receive all updates from rhn and apply them to a channel and have all machines subscribed to that channel report that they are out of date and simpl

[Spacewalk-list] spacewalk or satellite

2009-12-02 Thread Tom Brown
So i need to decide on which is 'best' for us - I have installed spacewalk and had it reporting in terms of machines being out of date for updates etc but the task of reacting to errata seems clumsy to me. What i need to know is is it possible to simply have the spacewalk server receive all