Usage

Table of Contents The steps Example usage More complicated usage Test mode usage, using archive format

The steps

1. Push all updates from your local centos mirror to your spacewalk server
2. Get a centos-announce digest posting or download an archive from the the list archive pages. If you just want to play, I provide some test files in each release.
3. Uncompress the archive, if used.
4. Run the script in test mode (--test) on your file to check your configuration is correct for the errata you want for your distribution. Remember to specify -f archive if you are using the downloaded archive format
5. Run the script without the --test flag to push the errata to your spacewalk server
6. The script is not very chatty when pushing errata - be patient as it takes about 15 seconds for each one to upload.
7. Log in to spacewalk and examine your freshly-minted errata.

Example usage

This assumes customization of config file and use of a digest posting:

  ./centos-errata.py /tmp/centos-digest-message.txt

More complicated usage

  ./centos-errata.py --i386-channel my-i386-updates \
                  --server spacewalk.example.com \ 
                  --i386-packagedir /centos-mirror/5.3/updates/x86_64/RPMS \
                 /tmp/centos-announce-digest.txt

Test mode usage, using archive format

  ./centos-errata.py -f archive --test /tmp/2009-May.txt