[Spacewalk-list] Tool to check contents of /var/satelite against RHN Database

[ndegz]

Thanks for the script, for those of you running it on spacewalk you need to
change RHNSAT to SPACEWALK in the select statement.
I've been using the update-packages script (which required a bit of hacking
to get working) to find packages that are in the db but not the file system

-N

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Alan Evans <alanwevans at gmail.com> wrote:

> I posted to the list a few weeks ago about a tool to check /var/satellite
> for packages that are not listed in the database and was told no such tool
> existed.  So... I wrote one.
>
> My concern was that my company's RHN Satellite has been through more than a
> few upgrades, including some major upgrades like 4 -> 5 and has been through
> the removal of bunches of custom and Red Hat base channels alike.  In my
> experience any time a database contains a list of files on a filesystem the
> two will inevitably get out of sync somehow.
>
> Satellite-sync does a great job of making sure what's in the database has a
> counterpart on the filesystem so this is not a problem.  However the reverse
> seems not to have been considered.
>
> Using my script I was able to indeed find that there were about 90 files in
> /var/satellite that were no represented in the RHN database.  Ok so 90 files
> out of 56,000 is not exactly something to get too overly worked up about but
> before running my script I had no way to know.  My last RHN Satellite
> upgrade involved moving Satellite to new hardware between datacenters so the
> less I had to rsync the better.
>
> In any event, I have attached my script in case it might be of use to
> anyone else.  If it looks good perhaps it would make a good addition to the
> contrib directory.
>
> Regards,
> -Alan
>
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