Re: [Spacewalk-list] [spacewalk 1.1] how to populate errata?

2010-09-20 Thread Jet Wilda
I also found spw-clone-errata.py (https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/browser/scripts/clone-errata/spw-clo ne-errata.py) and rhn-clone-errata.py (https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/browser/scripts/clone-errata/rhn-clo ne-errata.py). From: Jet Wilda Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 3:34 PM Subje

[Spacewalk-list] [spacewalk 1.1] how to populate errata?

2010-09-20 Thread Jet Wilda
Hi, With spacewalk 1.1 what is the best way to populate the server with errata? I'm looking at this http://www.bioss.ac.uk/staff/davidn/spacewalk-stuff/ page with the script centos-errata.py and then I found the script apply_errata (https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/browser/ut

[Spacewalk-list] How to enable yum-priorities with spacewalk 1.1?

2010-09-20 Thread Jet Wilda
Hi, We are setting up spacewalk 1.1 to manage OS updates on our CentOS 5 boxes, however we need to also have EPEL and RpmForge repositories. So how do we configure yum-priorities so that RPMs from those extra repositories do not step on base system RPMs? Thanks, ~Jet

Re: [Spacewalk-list] can not remove kickstart profiles

2010-09-20 Thread Mullis, Josh (CCI-Atlanta)
The api was showing no profiles, even though they were in the web ui. I had to go into the distros section, click delete. It would then display the profiles that were dependent on the distro. If you click the link to the profile there, it would display the profile and allow you to remove. (not s

[Spacewalk-list] can not remove kickstart profiles

2010-09-20 Thread Mullis, Josh (CCI-Atlanta)
All, Can anyone tell me how to completely clear out the cobbler information from the DB? Seems there are some inconsistencies between spacewalk's DB and cobbler. Whenever I issue a "cobbler profile remove", the profile gets removed. "cobbler profile list" confirms it's removed. Then a few secon

[Spacewalk-list] can't yum install anything with a + in it's name

2010-09-20 Thread Ewan Lyall
Hello, I wonder if anyone can help...? I am running a Spacewalk 1.1 server on RHEL5 which I have recently upgraded from Spacewalk 0.5. It is working perfectly for all my clients (also RHEL5) except that I can't install any packages that have a "+" in their name. I know this was an issue back in v