[Spacewalk-list] Errata Cloning Script

[Tom Brown]

> Hi Team,
>
> I promised to post the script I adapted for cloning errata from RHN to
> my Spacewalk server.  I'm sad to say that it's not a completed work at
> this point, but does the basic things.  Some things that are missing
> and/or are caveats:
>
> 1) Updating errata that affect another channel, should you add a channel
> that might be affected by an existing errata.
>
> 2) I've been a little lazy and have hard-coded my own RHN credentials in
> the script, rather than asking the user for the info, passing it as an
> argument, or reading it from a file.  I'll get around to it later.
>
> 3) I would avoid errata publishing for the time-being.  The
> functionality exists in the script, but it's not right.  If you pull
> down an errata that's for both RHEL 4 & 5 (for instance).. you'll end up
> with RHEL 5 packages in your RHEL 4 channels.  I need to work this out.
>
> 4) This is my first attempt at anything with Python.. so it's probably
> quite horrible.  I will be updating this as I develop more, not sure if
> the Spacewalk maintainers want to add something like this to their list
> of user-contributed scripts... but I'd be happy to maintain it there, if
> so.
>
> I'm looking for feedback, suggestions... kicks.  Whatever. :)
>
>   

Hi Andy

Do you have any basic useage examples of this please?? eg

# python spw-clone-errata.py -l myuser -p mypass -c rhel-x86_64-server-5
spw-clone-errata.py:31: DeprecationWarning: the sets module is deprecated
  from sets import Set
try: spw-clone-errata.py --help

thanks