[Spacewalk-list] Yet an other errata sync tool eva-direct-errata-sync.pl

[Paul Robert Marino]

That should be doable without too much difficulty. I can think of two ways
to do it ill see if I have time to do the patch today.
The one thing I want to avoid is crossing distrobutions with erratas
because I've seen other scripts do it and cause unintended consiquences.
For example publishing a rhel package into a scientific linux repo because
the scientific linux rpm had an identical name. That in its self isn't
catostrophic but when you have two packages with the same name and version
in a repo yum gets undersandably confused and thows off a generic error
about the package being corupt.
this cross distrobution contamination happens because of several reasons
but its not something that can easily be fixed. So I will want to put a
very noticeable warning in the documentation about it.
On Jul 20, 2012 5:03 AM, "Stefan Förster" <cite+spacewalk-users at incertum.net>
wrote:

> Hello Paul,
>
> * Paul Robert Marino <prmarino1 at gmail.com>:
> > Here is yet an other errata sync tool for people to try.
> > I would appreciate any feed back people can give me on it.
> > Ive been using it for several months and so have other people, it is
> > stable the only know major bug was fixed today so its finally ready
> > for mass consumption.
>
> nice work so far. However, one thing I'd really like to see: The
> ability to clone errata for more than one architecture and release.
> For example, our Spacewalk server hosts CentOS 5/i386, CentOS 5/x86_64
> and CentOS 6/x86_64.
>
> Since you cannot update existing errata AFAIK, you'd have to make it
> possible to specify more than one source and destination channel, scan
> them for errata they share and then create one erratum on the
> Spacewalk server that matches multiple architectures/releases.
>
> Do you think that's possible?
>
>
> Cheers
> Stefan
>
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