[Spacewalk-list] [spacewalk 1.1] how to populate errata?

[Michal Bruncko]

  Hello

and is there any possible way to populate errata for fedora 
distributions (through some existing scripts)?

thanks

michal

On 23. 9. 2010 15:57, David Nutter wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 03:43:57PM -0400, Jet Wilda wrote:
>> I also found spw-clone-errata.py
>> (https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/browser/scripts/clone-errata/spw-clo
>> ne-errata.py) and rhn-clone-errata.py
>> (https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/browser/scripts/clone-errata/rhn-clo
>> ne-errata.py).
> These scripts will copy errata from the Redhat Network if you have
> sufficient valid Redhat Enterprise Linux subscriptions for your
> machines. This is the preferred method for RHEL users.
>
>>                  With spacewalk 1.1 what is the best way to populate the
>> server with errata?  I'm looking at this
>> http://www.bioss.ac.uk/staff/davidn/spacewalk-stuff/ page with the
>> script centos-errata.py
> If you are a CentOS user as I am then my centos-errata script will
> create ersatz errata from postings to the centos-announce mailing list
> and put them on your spacewalk server. Not perfect, but rather better
> than no errata at all.
>
>> and then I found the script apply_errata
>> (https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/browser/utils/apply_errata) in the
>> spacewalk-utils RPM.   Any and all help is very much appreciated.
> These tools are for applying existing errata to your managed
> systems. They will not help you create errata in the first place.
>
> Regards,
>