Comments on: How to mirror RHN behind your firewall.

By: arumon

arumon — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:35:58 +0000

Hi,

Somebody pleasee update the client side configuration also.

Regards,
Arumon

By: Android

Android — Tue, 18 May 2010 18:23:45 +0000

the repodata depend where the getPackage folder are. The repodata folder and the getPackage need to be in the same directory… we can re-use the repodata of rhn!

reposync -p /opt/mylocalrepo/ –repoid=rhel-x86_64-server-5 -l
# -l is for load plugin

yum –disablerepo=* –enablerepo=$RELEASE makecache

cp -f /var/cache/yum/$RELEASE/*.gz /var/cache/yum/$RELEASE/*.xml /opt/mylocalrepo/$RELEASE/repodata

By: Roberto

Roberto — Thu, 13 May 2010 14:58:30 +0000

Just as an FYI your article really help me at all and it saved me a lot of time.

We have only right now 2 repos epel-x86_64 and redhat-x86_64 I think both of them have all the packages pretty much.

Now we have a few RHEL 64bit machines I just picked one and mounted the NFS filesystem there (from the actual main packages server) were I do the syncs once a month like Ken says. The epel one you can do it from everywhere just specifying the –arch parameter on the reposync command.

Hope this helps.

By: JD Henderson

JD Henderson — Tue, 11 May 2010 16:54:59 +0000

Question about what the -l does?
I can’t find this option in the reposync optoins. What does the -l (that is dash lower case L) ?

Thank you.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:55:50 +0000

Does this work for all versions of 5 server? IE does it get packages and work for 5.3 and 5.4?

Can you still run items like just security updates with this setup?

By: Glisha

Glisha — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:02:42 +0000

Parker you can clone (tar) all the real systems that are subscribed to a different channel (one for each channel). Extract all of them on one machine and chroot into them. Then run reposync and createrepo on a shared folder.

By: ken_fallon

ken_fallon — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:16:40 +0000

Parker is correct you can only sync to channels you are subscribed to. In addition if you are subscribed to x86_64 you get most of the packages in i386. But if you have a i386 server that cannot subscribe to the x86_64. So the solution is to maintain a different server for each architecture. Not elegant at all.

Ken.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:56:49 +0000

I would like to know the answer to Parker’s question as well.

By: Parker Jardine

Parker Jardine — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:56:16 +0000

In addition to my previous comment:
You stated “You can download as many channels as you like if you have the subscription and the disk space.” How do you do this? You cannot sync with a channel you are not subscribed to. I logged into RHN, and a machine can only be subribed to one base channel. Unless I am missing something.

By: Parker

Parker — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:59:30 +0000

Thank you for the directions. I am syncing right now. However, I am only syncing with my base channel i386. I have other servers subscribed to the x86_64 base channel. How do I get this server to be subsribed to both the 32bit and 64bit channels? Rather than creating a repo on two machines. Thanks. Hope you can help. Great post.