[Spacewalk-list] Initial load of Red Hat channel...?

Colin Coe colin.coe at gmail.com
Tue Nov 24 23:19:35 UTC 2009 

Just remember that putting RPMs into a channel is step one, you also
need to get the kickstart trees into Spacewalk if you want to do
provisioning (building systems).

CC

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 6:46 AM, Robert Kuropkat
<rkuropkat at t-sciences.com> wrote:
>
> hehehe, I am starting to work that out :-)
>
> Right now I've hit pause on this for a couple more hours.  I'm tired of
> Windows 7 blue screening on me and corrupting my VMs, so I am trying to
> get my Ubuntu partition functional.
>
> I hope to be back on this later tonight or tomorrow.
>
> Right now, I think I've been able to load the rpms from the iso using
> rhnpush and I used the web GUI to initiate a load of rpms from the RHN
> Extras site.  This gave me about 6,000 rpms in this channel.
>
> Now, whether that did something useful or not, I'm not sure.  I'll try
> to recreate it soon and see if I can subscribe a system to that channel
> and do updates.
>
> 'preciate all the help from everyone so far...
>
> Robert Kuropkat
>
>
> On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 06:41 +0800, Colin Coe wrote:
>> Robert,
>>
>> RHN Satellite != Spacewalk
>>
>> There are a lot of similarities but they are not the same, esp. when
>> dealing with RHEL products.
>>
>> CC
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:33 AM, Robert Kuropkat
>> <rkuropkat at t-sciences.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > now see, that almost makes sense.  It does not appear to be what the
>> > documentation actually says, though maybe I am misreading it.  it talks
>> > about copying the files from the ISO and then goes right to the
>> > satellite-sync import.  I'm on page 47 of the install guide and rhnpush has
>> > not even been mentioned yet.  Perhaps the Channel Management guide is more
>> > detailed and I should skip to it...
>> >
>> > Robert Kuropkat
>> >
>> >
>> > Josh.Mullis at cox.com wrote:
>> >>
>> >> The ISO's they are speaking of are the same one you downloaded on your
>> >> first thread.
>> >>
>> >> They are saying that to save time, download the iso, mount it, and import
>> >> into spacewalk via the rhnpush utility.
>> >>
>> >> This means it will not take as long to sync the channel from RHN via the
>> >> rhnget command, because most of the packages are already there.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> ----- Original Message -----
>> >> From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com
>> >> <spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com>
>> >> To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com <spacewalk-list at redhat.com>
>> >> Sent: Tue Nov 24 11:07:25 2009
>> >> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Initial load of Red Hat channel...?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> I still need to look into these packages.  Last night I accidentally
>> >> imported 3817 packages on accident, not exactly sure what.  I guess part of
>> >> what is irritating me is the following paragraph from the Satellite Server
>> >> Installation guide:
>> >>
>> >> The Red Hat Network Channel Content ISOs or RHN Satellite Exporter data
>> >> must be available, or the Satellite must have access to the Internet and the
>> >> RHN website.
>> >>
>> >> Although it is possible to conduct the import directly from the RHN
>> >> website, this should be done only if Channel Content ISOs are not available.
>> >> It takes a long time to populate a channel from scratch over the Internet.
>> >> For this reason, Red Hat urges you to use ISOs, if they are available, for
>> >> initial import.
>> >>
>> >> So how the hell does one get the "Red hat Network Channel Content ISOs"?
>> >>  I have a valid RHN login but the iso's I download don't seem to have the
>> >> Channel Content info?  Or am I just on crack?  I mean I try not to read
>> >> documentation very often but would appreciate it to be correct when I do
>> >> bother... :-)
>> >>
>> >> Robert
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Josh.Mullis at cox.com wrote:
>> >>
>> >>>
>> >>> Look into rhnget and gensystemid from the mrepo package.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> You can use that to sync the rhel rpms locally, then use rhnpush to
>> >>> import into spacewalk.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> ----- Original Message -----
>> >>> From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com
>> >>> <spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com>
>> >>> To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com <spacewalk-list at redhat.com>
>> >>> Sent: Mon Nov 23 21:37:40 2009
>> >>> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Initial load of Red Hat channel...?
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> yea, in the little reading I recall on it, I gave it a confused dog look
>> >>> and just hoped I did not really need that.  So I'll look a little harder at
>> >>> it unless this other thing actually works accidentally.  But it sounds like
>> >>> even though I am getting nearly 4,000 packages it is still only part of what
>> >>> I need.
>> >>>
>> >>> Thanks for the info...
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Colin Coe wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I didn't like mrepo as:
>> >>>> a) I didn't find it at all intuitive
>> >>>> b) unless you do some fancy scripting you end up all the RHEL (and/or
>> >>>> EPEL) content twice on your filesystem
>> >>>>
>> >>>> CC
>> >>>>
>> >>>> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Robert Kuropkat
>> >>>> <rkuropkat at t-sciences.com> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> hmmm... Well that makes a little more sense I guess.  I think it did/is
>> >>>>> syncing the epel repo, which is of course not what I wanted but would
>> >>>>> imply
>> >>>>> that process would work if I can dredge up the correct url.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> I did see something about spacewalk-repo-sync but I think that requires
>> >>>>> a
>> >>>>> URL as well, not local media.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> I do seem to have a sync process running, so I am not sure if it is
>> >>>>> because
>> >>>>> I clicked on the sync button multiple times or what.  Nothing is
>> >>>>> showing up
>> >>>>> in the Schedule tab in Space walk under pending, failed, completed or
>> >>>>> archived so I don't really understand what state this process is in.
>> >>>>>  There
>> >>>>> is a /var/log/rhn/rhn_taskomatic_daemon.log file that is showing a lot
>> >>>>> of
>> >>>>> hibernate and java null pointer errors so that does not seem promising.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Actually, it looks like something might be happening now, I might have
>> >>>>> just
>> >>>>> been impatient.  There is now file in /var/log/rhn/reposync that is
>> >>>>> growing
>> >>>>> and shoes 754/3817.... and my little VM has gotten sluggish as hell.
>> >>>>>  So
>> >>>>> maybe it is downloading everything for a complete RH 5.2?
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Of course, that kinda sucks because I was about to give up and go home.
>> >>>>>  Now
>> >>>>> I have to stay and wait it out :-/
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Robert
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> P.S.  What is mrepo and what did you not like about it?  I thought I
>> >>>>> saw
>> >>>>> that mentioned somewhere in my reading but don't recall now...
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Colin Coe wrote:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> My understanding is that satellite-sync does not work with Sapcewalk
>> >>>>>> but I'm not 100% on that.
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/ is the location for
>> >>>>>> EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux), not for RHEL.
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> a minute or two after clicking sync repo, do a 'ps -ef | grep sync' to
>> >>>>>> see if you have any spacewalk-repo-sync processes running.  I think
>> >>>>>> the logs are under /var/satellite/sync_repo or something similar.
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> I ended up using mrepo to do this but I was less than happy with it.
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> CC
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Robert Kuropkat
>> >>>>>> <rkuropkat at t-sciences.com> wrote:
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> I seem to be missing something obvious.  I've installed Red Hat 5.2
>> >>>>>>> (in a
>> >>>>>>> VirtualBox VM) and installed Spacewalk.  Now I need to create my
>> >>>>>>> first
>> >>>>>>> channel.  I downloaded Red Hat 5.2 and copied the ISO to the file
>> >>>>>>> system
>> >>>>>>> and
>> >>>>>>> tried:
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> satellite-sync --list-channels --mount-point /var/rhn-sat-import/rhel
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> It fails saying it is unable to process file
>> >>>>>>> /var/rhn-sat-import/rhel/channel_families/channel_families.xml
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> Sure enough, that file is not there.  I read the documentation on how
>> >>>>>>> to
>> >>>>>>> get
>> >>>>>>> the channel iso but it only gives me an iso without the channel
>> >>>>>>> information.
>> >>>>>>>  The documentation does not seem to exactly describe the web ui
>> >>>>>>> navigation
>> >>>>>>> through the RHN web site so I'm not sure if the documentation is
>> >>>>>>> slightly
>> >>>>>>> out of date and I am guessing wrong, or if there is some other detail
>> >>>>>>> I
>> >>>>>>> am
>> >>>>>>> missing.
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> I do also see the URL for repo sync in Spacewalk, but don't
>> >>>>>>> understand
>> >>>>>>> what
>> >>>>>>> the URL should be for Red hat version 5.2.  I put in this:
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> And it said repository sync scheduled, but I see no evidence it
>> >>>>>>> actually
>> >>>>>>> did
>> >>>>>>> anything...  okay wait, before I hit send I went and looked again and
>> >>>>>>> it
>> >>>>>>> does look like it did something, just not what I wanted it to.  So
>> >>>>>>> maybe
>> >>>>>>> the
>> >>>>>>> URL above is just incorrect?  How do I setup a local Red Hat 5.2
>> >>>>>>> repo?
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> Any help appreciated.
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> Robert Kuropkat
>> >>>>>>>
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