Bug 1344318

Document URL: 

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Satellite/6.1/html/Transition_Guide/sect-Red_Hat_Satellite-Transition_Guide-Transitioning_from_Satellite_5_to_6-Exporting_Entities_from_Satellite_5.html

Section Number and Name: 

3.6. Exporting Entities from Satellite 5

Red_Hat_Satellite-Transition_Guide-6.1-en-US-2-10

Describe the issue: 


Running the exports directly on the Satellite 5 Server allows complete access to the spacewalk-export functionality, including limiting the data exported, using the --where and --like options. However, if the goal is to export as much as possible, or at most limit by organization, the spacewalk-export tool can manage the process for you.

The --where and --like options are for spacewalk-report, not spacewalk-export. For example, the results for spacewalk-export --help:

[root@sat5 satellite]# spacewalk-export --help
Usage: spacewalk-export [options]

Options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit

Locations:
  Where do you want to export to?

--export-dir=DIR    Specify directory to store exports in (will be created
                    if not found) - defaults to /root/spacewalk-export-dir
--export-package=FILE
                    Specify filename to use for final packaged-exports
                    tarfile - defaults to spacewalk_export.tar.gz

Entities:
  What do you want to export?

--list-entities     List supported entities
--entities=entity[,entity...]
                    Specify comma-separated list of entities to export
                    (default is all)
--org=ORG-ID        Specify an org-id whose data we will export
--dump-repos        Dump contents of file: repositories

Channels:
  --ext-pkgs          Channel-output contains only external packages
  --skip-repogen      Omit repodata generation for exported channels
  --no-size           Do not check package size

Utility:
  --clean             How do I clean up from previous runs?
  --debug             Log debugging output
  --quiet             Log only errors

The spacewalk-export calls spacewalk-report with the --where option (couldn’t find any reference to using --find), but a user can’t include --where or --like options when they run spacewalk-export. This leads me to believe this paragraph meant to say spacewalk-report in the first sentence.


Suggestions for improvement: 

Suggestion: "Running the exports directly on the Satellite 5 Server allows complete access to the spacewalk-report functionality…"

Additional information: 

Thanks to Dan Macpherson for reporting this issue.