liob/erroneous

a script to mark packages in a given repo as errata in spacewalk

Erroneous

Erroneous allows you to mark all packages of a Spacewalk channel as errata. It allows you to distinguish between security and bugfix erratas.

How it works:

1. Erroneous connects to the spacewalk server through the xmlrpc api and asks the server for a list of all packages in the specified channel(s).

2. A unique errata name is generated for each packages in the pattern: package:name-package:version.pacakge:release_errataGen i.e.: kernel-firmware-2.6.32.131.17.1.el6_errataGen The architecture is not included in the errata name. This results in one errata for all archs containing packages for all archs.

3. Erroneous then searches for an existing errata with that name and appends the package to the errata, if it exists, or creates a new errata if no errata is found.

Setup

The config file (erroneous.conf) consists of a [main] part and channels.

The [main] section

The [main] section has 4 key elements:

1. The server URL

   The url key defines the server URL. I.e.: https://yourspacewalkserver/rpc/api

2. The username

   The user key specifies a valid username, which should have the privileges to edit all software channels specified in the config.

3. The password

   pass specifies the password for user.

4. Debug Mode

   default: false

   possibilities: true | false

   If debug is set to true the script gets verbose.

The Channels

A Channel consists of a chanel label ([chanelLabel]), severity and which product it belongs to.

1. The channel label

   A new channel is introduced by creating a new section and naming it as the chanels name you want to create errata for.

2. The severity

   possibilities: security | bugfix

   The severity specifies, if the packages in the channel should be decorated with a security or a bugfix(fature) errata.

3. The product

   Here you can provide the product.

FAQ:

How do I select/delete all auto generated errata?

search for the string "errataGen"