[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.4 compare packages main channel with clone channel

[Michael Mraka]

Walter Soestbergen:
> Is it possible to check daily the differences between a main repository
> channel and a clone channel? I can do this with the GUI but I would like to
> get it daily in mail.
> 
> The reason I want this is that sometimes the daily errata sync between
> channels not work.

Hello,

You can use Spacewalk API to list packages from channels and then run
diff on those lists.

>From shell you can use spacecmd to do this. Or any XMLRPC library from
your favourite programming language.

http://spacewalk.redhat.com/documentation/api/2.3/handlers/ChannelSoftwareHandler.html#listAllPackages
http://spacewalk.redhat.com/documentation/api/2.3/scripts.html

> regards Walter

Regards,

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Michael Mráka
System Management Engineering, Red Hat