Thanks Jim. So has no one been able to have this pulled as a repository from spacewalk on CentOS 5? And the only way to do it is with mrepo?
Thanks, Maria On Mar 6, 2013, at 1:30 PM, "Hamilton, James" <james.hamil...@brightpoint.com> wrote: > We ran into this problem as well. Without getting into the good and bad os > sles, mostly bad, here is what we ended finding buried in novell docs. This > is an entry from our mrepo config: > core = you://nu.novell.com/repo/$RCE/SLES11-SP2-Core/sle-11-$arch/ > > Good luck. > Jim > > ________________________________________ > From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com [spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com] > on behalf of Maria Iano [ma...@purplecoffee.com] > Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 1:15 PM > To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com > Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] spacewalk and sles11 > > I may be having the same problem. I have spacewalk 1.8 running on > CentOS 5.9 32-bit. I have added a SLES 11 SP2 repository and channel, > but the sync won't work. Using curl with the same URL it does work. > Please see below. Did you ever find a fix? > > # /usr/bin/python -u /usr/bin/spacewalk-repo-sync --channel sles11-sp2- > x86_64 --type yum > Repo URL: > https://uid:p...@nu.novell.com/repo/%24RCE/SLES11-SP2-Core/sle-11-x86_64/ > ERROR: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for > repository: sles11-sp2-x86_64. Please verify its path and try again > Sync completed. > Total time: 0:00:01 > > # curl > https://uid:p...@nu.novell.com/repo/%24RCE/SLES11-SP2-Core/sle-11-x86_64/ > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> > <html> > <head> > <title>Index of /repo/$RCE/SLES11-SP2-Core/sle-11-x86_64</title> > </head> > <body> > <h1>Index of /repo/$RCE/SLES11-SP2-Core/sle-11-x86_64</h1> > <pre><img src="/icons/blank.gif" alt="Icon "> <a href="?C=N;O=D">Name</ > a> <a href="?C=M;O=A">Last modified</a> <a > href="?C=S;O=A">Size</a> <a href="?C=D;O=A">Description</a><hr><img > src="/icons/back.gif" alt="[DIR]"> <a href="/repo/$RCE/SLES11-SP2- > Core/">Parent Directory</a> - > <img src="/icons/folder.gif" alt="[DIR]"> <a href="repodata/">repodata/ > </a> 05-Mar-2012 07:56 - > <img src="/icons/folder.gif" alt="[DIR]"> <a href="rpm/">rpm/</ > a> 16-Feb-2012 05:12 - > <hr></pre> > <address>Apache/2.2.3 (Linux/SUSE) Server at nu.novell.com Port 80</ > address> > </body></html> > > > > > On Jun 22, 2011, at 11:16 PM, Jasper Aikema wrote: > > Hello, > > After some debugging, I gues the problem is in the python urlgrabber > script. > I think it is not able to do digest authentication. > > In the newer versions of urlgrabber, it uses curl for downloading the > files. Curl can (probably) do digest authentication. > > Is there already someone with CentOS 5.6, who is able to use the novell > repositories? > > Kind regards, > > Jasper Aikema > >> Hello, >> >> I do use CentOS 5.6, and the nightly build from RHEL 5 (at this > moment >> 1.5.1-1). >> >> The yum version is 3.2.22-33.el5.centos and the urlgrabber is >> 3.1.0-6.el5. >> >> I does not make a diverance when I quote the URL (I do escape the > dollar >> sign in the URL). >> >> There is no proxy server between the spacewalk server and the novell >> server. >> >> Kind regards, >> >> Jasper Aikema >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Am Montag, 20. Juni 2011, 13:52:56 schrieb Jasper Aikema: >>>> He, >>>> >>>> I have created a repo with the following settings: >>>> >>>> Repository Label: sles11-sp1-pool-x86_64 >>>> Repository URL: https://<my ncc username>:<my ncc >>>> password>@nu.novell.com/repo/$RCE/SLES11-SP1-Pool/sle-11-x86_64/ >>>> >>>> Next i added a channel, and attached the repo to the channel. >>>> >>>> When I sync the channel (spacewalk-repo-sync --channel >>>> sles11-sp1-pool-x86_64 or spacewalk-repo-sync --channel >>>> sles11-sp1-pool-x86_64 --url https://<my ncc username>:<my ncc >>>> password>@nu.novell.com/repo/$RCE/SLES11-SP1-Pool/sle-11- > x86_64/), i do >>>> get the next error: >>> [...] >>> >>> On Fedora14 with spacewalk nightly build this works. It seems you > use RHEL5, >>> correct? Which spacewalk version do you use? >>> Maybe a different yum or URLgrabber version make trouble? >>> >>> If you use the commandline with the --url switch, take care you > quote the URL >>> with ''. >>> >>> Is there a http proxy between spacewalk and NCC? Maybe the proxy > block the >>> download? > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
