[Spacewalk-list] Content Merge - Child Channels

[Alexander Dacre]

Thanks, Matt.


I've actually written a small application in Go (it's about time that compiled languages made a comeback, right?) that uses the XML-RPC API to do this instead. Configuration is driven JSON files similar to those used by merge-channel-by-date. I'll speak to my superiors tomorrow and see if they will let me put it up on Github.


Thanks,

Alex


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From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com <spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com> on behalf of Matthew Madey <mattmadey at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2014 5:39 PM
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Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Content Merge - Child Channels

Alex,

Using the api in a python script is probably the best way to do this. I set up a cron job to merge packages.

I simply create two arrays, one for source channels and one for destination channels like so:


## Source and Destination Channels. All items must be positioned identically in the corresponding lists!
src_channels = ['rhel-x86_64-server-6-base', 'rhel-x86_64-server-6-base-epel', 'rhel-x86_64-server-6-base-hpsa', 'rhel-x86_64-server-6-base-optional', 'rhel-x86_64-server-6-base-puppet-dependencies', 'rhel-x86_64-server-6-base-puppet-product', 'rhel-x86_64-server-6-base-spacewalk-client', 'rhel-x86_64-server-6-base-thd-tools', 'rhel-x86_64-server-6-base-tools', 'rhel-x86_64-server-6-base-updates']
dst_channels = ['rhel-x86_64-server-6-stores', 'rhel-x86_64-server-6-stores-epel', 'rhel-x86_64-server-6-stores-hpsa', 'rhel-x86_64-server-6-stores-optional', 'rhel-x86_64-server-6-stores-puppet-dependencies', 'rhel-x86_64-server-6-stores-puppet-product', 'rhel-x86_64-server-6-stores-spacewalk-client', 'rhel-x86_64-server-6-stores-thd-tools', 'rhel-x86_64-server-6-stores-tools', 'rhel-x86_64-server-6-stores-updates']

print "Merging selected channels!"

client.channel.software.mergePackages(key, src_channels[0], dst_channels[0])
client.channel.software.mergePackages(key, src_channels[1], dst_channels[1])
client.channel.software.mergePackages(key, src_channels[2], dst_channels[2])
client.channel.software.mergePackages(key, src_channels[3], dst_channels[3])
client.channel.software.mergePackages(key, src_channels[4], dst_channels[4])
client.channel.software.mergePackages(key, src_channels[5], dst_channels[5])
client.channel.software.mergePackages(key, src_channels[6], dst_channels[6])
client.channel.software.mergePackages(key, src_channels[7], dst_channels[7])
client.channel.software.mergePackages(key, src_channels[8], dst_channels[8])
client.channel.software.mergePackages(key, src_channels[9], dst_channels[9])

print "All channels have been synchronized!"

client.auth.logout(key)


I'm no expert on python, so I'm sure there's a more pythonic way to do this, but it works.



On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 7:50 AM, Alexander Dacre <alex.dacre at aridhia.com<mailto:alex.dacre at aridhia.com>> wrote:
Hi,

Firstly, apologies if this appears as a duplicate post - first mailing list.

The spacewalk-clone-by data command seems great, but it only seems to do packages with errata?

If I was to just keep channels in sync from a package point of view and ignore errata, what would be the best way? I'm currently using the spacewalk-api and channel.software.mergePackages.

Thanks,
Alex


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