Bug 559370

Summary:	RFE: Ability to use non-Redhat channels with default base channel feature
Product:	[Community] Spacewalk	Reporter:	eric.heydrick
Component:	Server	Assignee:	Michael Mráka <mmraka>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Red Hat Satellite QA List <satqe-list>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	0.8	CC:	cperry, gmuench, nierenburg, prmarino1
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	spacewalk-utils-1.8.11-1	Doc Type:	Enhancement
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Last Closed:	2012-11-01 16:17:33 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	737830, 871344

Description eric.heydrick 2010-01-27 21:47:53 UTC

Description of problem: I would like the ability to use the 'default base channel' feature with non-Redhat supplied channels. This would allow using one activation key for multiple architectures or distributions. Right now I have to assign a different activation key to each base channel architecture.

Comment 1 Jan Pazdziora 2010-11-19 16:02:30 UTC

Mass-moving to space13.

Comment 2 Miroslav Suchý 2011-04-11 07:30:59 UTC

We did not have time for this one during Spacewalk 1.4 time frame. Mass moving to Spacewalk 1.5.

Comment 3 Miroslav Suchý 2011-04-11 07:36:14 UTC

We did not have time for this one during Spacewalk 1.4 time frame. Mass moving to Spacewalk 1.5.

Comment 4 Jan Pazdziora 2011-07-20 11:48:27 UTC

Aligning under space16.

Comment 5 Paul Robert Marino 2012-04-03 18:21:33 UTC

please try the script I attached in this email
https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-devel/2012-March/msg00085.html
it should work

Comment 6 Michael Mráka 2012-05-04 08:24:52 UTC

spacewalk-common-channel now has ability to create default channel mapping.

E.g.
 spacewalk-common-channel --user admin --password password --default-channels -v 'centos6'

Comment 7 Jan Pazdziora 2012-10-30 19:22:34 UTC

Moving ON_QA. Packages that address this bugzilla should now be available in yum repos at http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/nightly/

Comment 8 Jan Pazdziora 2012-11-01 16:17:33 UTC

Spacewalk 1.8 has been released: https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/ReleaseNotes18

Comment 9 Jon Nierenburg 2012-11-17 01:09:17 UTC

Trying to create a 'Distribution Channel Map' for CentOS fails because "Releases cannot be less than 3 characters."  

From the GUI (Channels->Distribution Channel Mapping->Create new...) I tried input inputting the following:
Operating System: centos-release
Release: 5
Architecture: x86_64
Channel Label: CentOS 6 - x86_64


I modified Paul Marino's script slightly to use the distchannel.setMapForOrg and I was able to create distributions maps for Centos 5 and 6.

Comment 10 Paul Robert Marino 2012-11-19 17:14:21 UTC

Huh I was about to mark the script as deprecated but if there is still a need I would be happy to update it

Comment 11 Michael Mráka 2012-11-20 10:31:59 UTC

Fixed in spacewalk master by
commit d7771ca94a2db07d84e2379ff52e3fb8af3fb601
    decrease distChannelMap release minimal length
    as e.g. CentOs5 uses '5' by default