[Spacewalk-list] reposync RHEL repositories on Centos Spacewalk

Mike Hanby mhanby at uab.edu
Thu Jun 25 21:45:47 UTC 2009 

Yah, that's strange, rhnget provides the option " --download-all   " which would imply that the omission of the option would cause rhnget to only download the latest version.
 

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From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Wojtak, Greg
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 4:19 PM
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: RE: [Spacewalk-list] reposync RHEL repositories on Centos Spacewalk

Am I missing something or is there a way to only download rpm's that are newer than, say, the 5.3 release?  Basically all the updates (only) since then?  I was hoping to set it up in a similar manner to CentOS with a base channel as the release and then a child channel for updates.  How are you doing it?  Just one monolithic RHEL5 channel?

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From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mike Hanby
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 5:08 PM
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ditto, thanks Rob, I'm up to glibc-2.3...... and counting

rhnget is pulling every single minor revision, sheesh :_)

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From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Wojtak, Greg
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 3:25 PM
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I figured it out - I grabbed the 0.8.6 source and simply did make install, and this includes the proper libraries.  I'm off and running now, just need to wait for updates to download.  Thanks!

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From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mike Hanby
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 3:48 PM
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How did you install mrepo? using 'make install' or an RPM, or other?

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From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Wojtak, Greg
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 10:43 AM
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I've tried this, but get:
# gensystemid -u <myrhnusername> -p '<myrhnpassword>' --release=4ES --arch=i386 /opt/apps/spacewalk/mrepo/4ES-i386

And get a python traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gensystemid", line 8, in ?
    from up2date_client import config, rpcServer, up2dateErrors
ImportError: No module named up2date_client

Any ideas?

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From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mike Hanby
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 11:12 AM
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Thanks Rob, I'll give that a try. I have a whole drawer full of EL4 workstation entitlements, so that won't be a problem.

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From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rob Becker
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 10:05 AM
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As long as you have entitlements RHEL is easy.

Use mrepo to download the files. Here's my quick document on it.


- tar xvf mrepo-0.8.6.tar
- cd mrepo-0.8.6/ && make install
- cp rhel4es.conf /etc/mrepo.conf.d
- cp mrepo.conf /etc/
- vi /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources
	- add : up2date default
- add up2date-uuid
	- uuidgen
	- vi /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date-uuid/
		- add: rhnuuid=4a9179f7-b462-497e-b40a-1876df68a530
5. Generate SystemIDs'
	- gensystemid -u <RHNLogin> -p <RHNPassword> --release=4ES
--arch=i386 /opt/apps/spacewalk/mrepo/4ES-i386/
	- gensystemid -u <RHNLogin> -p <RHNPassword>  --release=4AS
--arch=x86_64 /opt/apps/spacewalk/mrepo/4AS-x86_64/

6. Download Content
	- rhnget --download-all -s /opt/apps/spacewalk/mrepo/4ES-i386/systemid
-vv rhns:///rhel-i386-es-4 /opt/apps/spacewalk/rpms/rhel4es-i386/



On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 10:54 -0400, Wojtak, Greg wrote:
> I think I have a plan for RHEL.  I will try and piece it together and
> let you all take a look and see what you think.
> 
>  
> 
> From:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mike Hanby
> Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 10:51 AM
> To: 'spacewalk-list at redhat.com'
> Subject: RE: [Spacewalk-list] reposync RHEL repositories on Centos
> Spacewalk
> 
> 
>  
> 
> Here's what I do to allow me to download multiple distros /
> architectures on my spacewalk server.
> 
>  
> 
> My spacewalk server is running CentOS 5 x86_64.
> 
>  
> 
> say I stage everything in /var/www/html/pub/<distro>-<arch> as
> suggested in the wiki, for example CentOS5-x86_64, i'll create
> a /var/www/html/pub/CentOS5-i386/yum.conf file
> and /var/www/html/pub/CentOS5-i386/yum.repos.d and directory.
> 
>  
> 
> I then customize the yum.conf to point to the customized repo files
> and a different cache directory / log file:
> 
> reposdir=/var/www/html/pub/CentOS5-i386/yum.repos.d
> 
> cachedir=/var/cache/yum-i386
> 
> logfile=/var/log/yum-i386.log
> 
>  
> 
> My reposync commands for CentOS5-i386 start like this:
> 
> reposync --config=/var/www/html/pub/CentOS5-i386/yum.conf --arch=i686
> --repoid=centos5-base
> 
>  
> 
> I tried using the existing /etc/yum.conf and /etc/yum.repos.d and
> couldn't consistently download the entire set of files and ultimately
> found that if I hard coded the URLs in the repo files, everything
> worked, for example:
> 
>  
> 
> [centos5-base]
> 
> name=CentOS-5 - Base i386
> 
> mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=i386&repo=os
> 
>  
> 
> When I decided to add CentOS 4 x86_64 channels to the spacewalk
> server, it was simple to duplicate the configuration used for
> CentOS5-i386 and make the slight changes to the yum.repos.d files.
> 
>  
> 
> As for RHEL4, I'm still trying to come up with a solution for them, I
> may end up converting them to CentOS4.
> 
>  
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> From:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Wojtak, Greg
> Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 9:03 AM
> To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> Subject: RE: [Spacewalk-list] reposync RHEL repositories on Centos
> Spacewalk
> 
> 
>  
> 
> The only other thing I can think of is to use the –n(?) option to only
> grab the newest RPM’s, compare against what’s on the latest DVD iso,
> and then only rhnpush what’s not there into an updates channel the
> same way CentOS does.  
> 
>  
> 
> Is there a good way to compare two rpm’s and see which one is newer?
> I tried coming up with a regular expression to grab the version out of
> the filename for comparison, but it is not very reliable.
> 
>  
> 
> From:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Shao Ming
> Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 9:36 PM
> To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] reposync RHEL repositories on Centos
> Spacewalk
> 
> 
>  
> 
> I am trying to avoid that. I hope to hv all reposync, be it RHEL
> Centos Fedora, to be done on the same Spacewalk box. I'm sure that is
> possible but I can't seem to locate the info in this list...
> 
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Wojtak, Greg
> <GregWojtak at quickenloans.com> wrote:
> 
> Here's what I did:
> 
> On my RHEL servers (with valid rhn subscriptions), I installed and ran
> reposync for the appropriate RHN repositories I needed for my
> environment.  I then rhnpush'ed those - for RHEL 5 it was a total of
> 5353 packages and for x86_64 it was 7000+.  I don't have any better
> idea how to manage those, and I am still trying to figure out how I am
> going to manage them going forward.  But at least I have a consistent
> set... for now.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Alexandros
> Soumplis
> Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 5:28 AM
> To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] reposync RHEL repositories on Centos
> Spacewalk
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Ok, i understand. Well I do not use any RHEL clients on my spacewalk
> infrastructure to be more helpful but I am more than convinced that
> you
> need to have a valid rhn subscription and then configure yum
> appropriately
> to connect to rhn repos as well. However it would be better if someone
> else on the list with rhel client can shred more light :-)
> 
> 
> 
> > Hi Soumplis,
> >
> > thanks for the quick reply. I think I was not too clear in my
> earlier
> > e-mail. I apologise.
> >
> > Currently, I have a mix of Centos and RHEL boxes. I have managed to
> use
> > reposync to download packages for Centos and rhnpush to Spacewalk.
> My
> > Spacewalk is installed on a Centos.
> >
> > What I am having problem is wondering how to reposync with RHEL
> packages?
> > Do
> > I create a rhel repo at /etc/yum.repos.d/? Do I need a rhn
> subscription
> > account? I'm lost on this part.
> >
> > thanks
> > Shao Ming
> >
> >
> > 2009/6/24 Alexandros Soumplis <soumplis at ekt.gr>
> >
> >> I think you make a mistake. As long as your clients are CentOS
> boxes
> >> then
> >> you need to use reposync on your spacewalk server to download
> CentOS
> >> packages from a CentOS repository. Reposync uses your existing yum
> >> configuration and repositories. After you've downloaded the
> packages you
> >> can use rhnpush to push those packages into spacewalk repository.
> There
> >> are lots of information on the wiki and on this list archives.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > just started on spacewalk and need some answers/helps.
> >> >
> >> > I have manged to to create Software channels for my Centos 5.x
> >> clients. I
> >> > also have a few RHEL boxes and hope to point them to spcewalk
> also.
> >> Can
> >> > someone explain how I can use the reposync to download packages
> from
> >> rhn
> >> > and
> >> > push them to spacewalk?
> >> > I do not have any 'rhel' repoid in my Centos install.
> >> >
> >> > thanks
> >> > Shao Ming
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