[Spacewalk-list] CentOS 5.6 FASTTRACK errata and centos-errata.py

[David Nutter]

On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 05:31:30PM +0100, David Nutter wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Since CentOS upstream has started including these RPMS in their
> announcements, I was wondering if anyone is interested in pushing
> these errata types to spacewalk using my script
> (https://www.bioss.ac.uk/staff/davidn/spacewalk-stuff/)? We don't use
> the FastTrack RPMS ourselves but realise they may be of community
> interest.
> 
> The changes should be trivial; at present the regex doesn't like the
> subject line and there's no way to specify a specific fasttrack
> channel in which to place these errata.
> 
> Let me know what you think. If there's no interest I probably won't
> bother implementing this feature.

Hello again,

A new version of the script with FastTrack support, configurable
search strategies (so you can choose to use a spacewalk, a directory
of packages or both and in any order you like) and a man page is now
available here:

http://www.bioss.ac.uk/staff/davidn/spacewalk-stuff/0.3/

Comments welcome.

Regarding erratas which fail to be created, this is usually caused by
the input emails not being formatted as the script expects. In the
recent 5.6 update round there were the following problem messages:

"CESA-2011:0472", "CESA-2011:0471", "CESA-2011:0474":

  Missing "Severity" field 

"CESA-2011:474", "CEBA-2011:470":

  Errata ID is not four digits

Both issues could be corrected by manually editing the input
emails. Short of the "updateinfo.xml" file mentioned by another
poster there's not much I can do about this. CentOS are usually very
good about keeping their emails in a consistent format though, so it
is rarely a huge issue.

Regards,

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