[Spacewalk-list] Cobbler repositories synchronizing with Spacewalk channels

[Jan Hutař]

On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 16:18:08 +0000 "Kalchik, Jeffery"
<JDKalchik at landolakes.com> wrote:

> For background, I have a nice shiny new Spacewalk 1.7
> (PostgreSQL backend) running on an Oracle Linux (*NOT* my
> choice, I've got over 100 Oracle Linux servers here,) 5.8
> 64bit server (HP bl460c G6 blade.)  Cobbler 2.2.2-1.el5.  I
> went down this road because I got spoiled with the RedHat
> Satellite implementation on the RHEL side of things.
> 
> Here's my problem:
> 
> I'd like to maintain local copies of some remote YUM
> repositories, in particular, the Spacewalk client at
> http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.7-client/RHEL/5/x86_64/.
> And because I do a lot of stuff during kickstarts, I'd like
> this to be mirrored locally into a cobbler repository as
> well.  The initial cobbler repo
> (--mirror=rhn://lol-spacewalk-client,) add went well, along
> with the first cobbler reposync.  So far, so good.
> 
> As I want to register the raft of servers into Spacewalk, I've
> discovered that I need to have python-ethtool available.  No
> problem, find the rpm file, add it to the local channel, run
> cobbler reposync.  That's odd, Spacewalk says that it's got 22
> packages in the channel, the reposync reports 21.  The
> python-ethtool package is conspicuously absent.  As a point of
> reference, I keep separate release channels that get synced
> nightly, servers get connected to channels that I update
> manually from the release channels.
> 
> Okay, remove the channel, remove the cobbler repository.
> Create the channel, copy the packages in from my release
> channel, add python-ethool, create the cobbler repository and
> reposync.  Still doesn't see python-ethtool.
> 
> I've stopped & restarted Spacewalk services, even restarted
> the PostgreSQL database.  Now I can't even get the contents of
> the channel to be visible for the reposync operation: sudo
> cobbler reposync --only lol-spacewalk-client task started:
> 2012-09-28_110758_reposync task started (id=Reposync, time=Fri
> Sep 28 11:07:58 2012) hello, reposync run, reposync, run!
> running: /usr/bin/reposync -l -m -d -r lol-spacewalk-client
> --download_path=/var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror received on
> stdout: Unable to fetch comps.xml
> 
> received on stderr:
> creating: /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/lol-spacewalk-client/.origin/lol-spacewalk-client.repo
> running: createrepo  -c cache -s
> sha /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/lol-spacewalk-client received
> on stdout: Saving Primary metadata
> Saving file lists metadata
> Saving other metadata
> 
> received on stderr: This option is deprecated
> 
> creating: /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/lol-spacewalk-client/config.repo
> running: chown -R
> root:apache /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/lol-spacewalk-client
> received on stdout: received on stderr:
> running: chmod -R
> 755 /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/lol-spacewalk-client received
> on stdout: received on stderr:
> *** TASK COMPLETE ***
> 
> The "unable to fetch comps.xml" error has to be part of the
> problem, and I don't know what's causing that.
> 
> I've got work arounds like managing local repositories
> manually, but I'd rather not go to that length.  None of the
> filesystems have filled up.
> 
> Unfortunately, none of the logs that I can find have any
> indication of errors, so I don't even know which way to
> start.  Where do I turn?
> 
> Jeff Kalchik
> Land O'Lakes

Hello,
this seems more like cobbler issue if I read it correctly. Can't
just just wget -r ... the repo you are interested in?

Regards,
Jan



-- 
Jan Hutar     Systems Management QA
jhutar at redhat.com     Red Hat, Inc.
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