[Spacewalk-list] eva-direct-errata-sync.pl -- easier than rhn-clone-errata.py

Fri Aug 17 19:41:51 UTC 2012

No I haven't done logging yet. I intend to add email reporting via
MIME::Simple at some point but for now if you intend to cron it I
suggest piping the output to the logger command.

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 3:34 PM,  <fnwsa at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Paul,
>
> I am looking forward to using the new version of eva-direct-errata-sync.pl.
> Thank you!
>
> By the way, I've not found the log file for eva-direct-errata-sync.pl if
> there is a one.
> # perldoc eva-direct-errata-sync.pl | grep log
> #
> nz
>
> ________________________________
> From: Paul Robert Marino <prmarino1 at gmail.com>
> To: fnwsa at yahoo.com; spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 2:09:06 PM
>
> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] eva-direct-errata-sync.pl -- easier than
> rhn-clone-errata.py
>
> By the way ill update the documentation when I'm ready to upload the
> next version of the script with multi-base channel support.
>
> also for any one else interested in using it for other distributions
> like CentOS or Scientific Linux
> here is an example for Scientific Linux
>
> eva-direct-errata-sync.pl --sourceuser=username
> --destinationuser=username -r -c "rhel-x86_64-server-6" -C
> "sci-linux-6_2" -e RH -E SL6-64 -F week
>
> This will change RHSA to SL6-64SA
>
> and for CentOS channels the
>
> --rewritepackagereleasefrom el6
> and
> --rewritepackagereleaseto el6.centos
> options are very important
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Paul Robert Marino <prmarino1 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> go into Errata ->All and you should see them on the left side of the page
>> when you click on Errata it defaults to the Relevant view which is
>> only erratas that apply to your registered systems
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 8:56 AM,  <fnwsa at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> Thank  you for the explanation, especially for (3).
>>>
>>> eva-direct-errata-sync.pl was running well in getting channel
>>> rhel-i386-server-5 and rhel-i386-as-4 that I got issues when using
>>> rhn-clone-errata.py. It took about 2 to 3 hours as you said.
>>>
>>> One question: If there is no rhel 5 i386 system added to Spacewalk, do
>>> the
>>> errata for this channel show in Spacewalk's Errata? I don't see them.
>>>
>>> Here is what I got from "perldoc eva-direct-errata-sync.pl": "-s
>>> satellite.example.org or --sourceserver satellite.example.org. The
>>> hostname
>>> of the errata source server. This option over rides the ERRATASRC
>>> environment variable. If neither this option or the environment variable
>>> are
>>> specified it defaults to access.redhat.com." So if the default source
>>> server
>>> is 'rhn.redhat.com', you may update the document.
>>>
>>> Great program. Thank you again for your contributions!
>>>
>>> nz
>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: Paul Robert Marino <prmarino1 at gmail.com>
>>> To: fnwsa at yahoo.com; spacewalk-list at redhat.com
>>> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 1:04:34 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] eva-direct-errata-sync.pl -- easier than
>>> rhn-clone-errata.py
>>>
>>> I have 4 comments on how you're running it
>>> 1) The default for --sourceserver is rhn.redhat.com so you don't need
>>> to specify it unless you are syncing from an other spacewalk server.
>>> 2) The --verbose flag is for debugging only and its output is really
>>> not meant for normal use and may be disturbing if you don't understand
>>> it
>>> 3) After the initial sync adding a the --startfromprevious option
>>> really does speed it up
>>>
>>> That being said depending on how your database is tuned and how fast
>>> your box is it shouldn't take more than two or three hours for the
>>> initial sync to complete.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:16 AM,  <fnwsa at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>> Thank Robert and Paul for your instructions.
>>>>
>>>> The eva-direct-errata-sync.pl is running now (don't know how long it
>>>> will
>>>> take). See these:
>>>>
>>>> # perl eva-direct-errata-sync.pl
>>>> --sourceuser=rhnusername \
>>>> --destinationuser=spacewalkusername \
>>>> --sourcepassword=rhnpassword \
>>>> --destinationpassword=spacewalkpassword \
>>>> --sourcechannel=rhel-i386-server-5 \
>>>> --destinationchannel=spacewalk_channel_rhel_5_i386 \
>>>> --sourceserver=access.redhat.com \
>>>> --destinationserver=localhost \
>>>> --recursive \
>>>> --verbose
>>>> No bugzilla url specified setting to the default
>>>> "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/"
>>>> connecting to "https://access.redhat.com/rpc/api/" with username
>>>> "rhnusername"
>>>> 404 Not Found
>>>>
>>>> Change access.redhat.com to rhn.redhat.com in sourceserver.
>>>>
>>>> # perl eva-direct-errata-sync.pl
>>>> --sourceuser=rhnusername \
>>>> --destinationuser=spacewalkusername
>>>> --sourcepassword=rhnpassword \
>>>> --destinationpassword=spacewalkpassword \
>>>> --sourcechannel=rhel-i386-server-5 \
>>>> --destinationchannel=spacewalk_channel_rhel_5_i386 \
>>>> --sourceserver=rhn.redhat.com \
>>>> --destinationserver=localhost \
>>>> --recursive \
>>>> --verbose
>>>> running......
>>>>
>>>> nz
>>>>
>>>> ________________________________
>>>> From: "Boyd, Robert" <Robert.Boyd at peoplefluent.com>
>>>> To: "fnwsa at yahoo.com" <fnwsa at yahoo.com>
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 5:09:44 PM
>>>> Subject: RE: [Spacewalk-list] rhn-clone-errata.py running issue
>>>>
>>>> To read the documentation  do this> Perldoc <scriptname>
>>>>
>>>> Here is a sample invocation:
>>>>
>>>> less /usr/local/bin/spacewalk-errata-sync
>>>> source ~/.bash_profile
>>>> echo `date` Syncing Spacewalk Errata
>>>> #export FROMDATE=-F week
>>>> export FROMDATE="-D `/usr/local/bin/errata_end_date`"
>>>> export SYNCOPTIONS="--verbose --recursive ${FROMDATE}"
>>>> # ERRATA[SRC|DST][USER|PASS] are defined in .bash_profile
>>>> #echo syncing scientific linux
>>>> #time /path/to/scripts/eva-direct-errata-sync.pl --sourceuser=username
>>>> --destinationuser=username -r -c "rhel-x86_64-server-6" -C
>>>> "sci-linux-6_2"
>>>> -e RH -E SL6 -F week
>>>> echo "Errata Sync Options: ${SYNCOPTIONS}"
>>>> echo `date` syncing RHEL 6
>>>> time /usr/local/bin/eva-direct-errata-sync.pl
>>>> --sourcechannel=rhel-x86_64-server-6
>>>> --destinationchannel=rhel-x86_64-server-6 ${SYNCOPTIONS}
>>>> echo `date` syncing RHEL 5 x86_64
>>>> time /usr/local/bin/eva-direct-errata-sync.pl
>>>> --sourcechannel=rhel-x86_64-server-5
>>>> --destinationchannel=rhel-x86_64-server-5 ${SYNCOPTIONS}
>>>> echo `date` syncing RHEL 4 x86_64
>>>> time /usr/local/bin/eva-direct-errata-sync.pl
>>>> --sourcechannel=rhel-x86_64-es-4
>>>> --destinationchannel=rhel-x86_64-server-4
>>>> ${SYNCOPTIONS}
>>>> echo `date` syncing RHEL 5 i386
>>>> time /usr/local/bin/eva-direct-errata-sync.pl
>>>> --sourcechannel=rhel-i386-server-5
>>>> --destinationchannel=rhel-i386-server-5
>>>> ${SYNCOPTIONS}
>>>> echo `date` syncing RHEL 4 i386
>>>> time /usr/local/bin/eva-direct-errata-sync.pl
>>>> --sourcechannel=rhel-i386-es-4
>>>> --destinationchannel=rhel-i386-server-4 ${SYNCOPTIONS}
>>>>
>>>> From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com
>>>> [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of fnwsa at yahoo.com
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 4:25 PM
>>>> To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
>>>> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] rhn-clone-errata.py running issue
>>>>
>>>> Hi Paul,
>>>>
>>>> I've just downloaded your script eva-direct-errata-sync.pl and trying to
>>>> use
>>>> it. Is there a README or HowTo document that users can use? Thanks a
>>>> lot!
>>>>
>>>> nz
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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