[Spacewalk-list] Pull rhn errata into spacewalk

[Tarun Reddy]

So I'm trying this script and I can't get logged into RHN even though my
username and password are correct.

My error is
Fault returned from XML RPC Server, fault code -2: unhandled internal
exception: error.invalid_login

Tarun

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Evan Frey <efrey2 at optonline.net> wrote:

> This script is another attempt at pulling RHN errata into spacewalk.  I
> have used the other out there and found that they didn't do what I wanted.
>  My hit list was as follows:
>
>  - From http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce pull the monthly
> digest down to pull out all of the advisory numbers
>  - Log into RHN and use the xmlrpc api to pull the details of each erratum
>  - Push the erratum into spacewalk using the xmlrpc api.  This should be
> pushed dynamically rather then needing a configuration file
>
>
> The items that I feel are still outstanding and plan to work on:
>
>  - Currently the script publishs the errata to all channels.  The next
> iteration should publish only to channels where the rpm file exists.
>  - The script does not check if erratum is already published, it just makes
> the attempt to publish it again (it will silently fail if the erratum is
> already there uploaded).  Not sure what the speed gain will be checking for
> errata on the local spacewalk server as opposed to just trying to publish,
> if it is negligible this will not be addressed.
>  - Keywords are currently just the list of packages.  This will change to
> be the keywords from RHN.
>  - Multithread the app.  Not sure I really care about this, but someone
> brought it up so I may look into it.
>
>
> The project is hosted on sourceforge at
> http://rhn2spacewalk.sourceforge.net/
>
> It requires:
>
> perl-Frontier-RPC
> perl-List-MoreUtils
>
> Additionally I used perl-5.8.8-32 so it had the following built in:
>
> Getopt::Long
> Switch
>
>
> Let me know what you think
>
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