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+based on some existing scripts (eva_direct_sync.pl and errata-import.pl), I've
+created a new script. Reason for the rework:
+- we have redhat and centos packages in spacewalk, both can have the same
+  package names, which would result in redhat packages being pushed in centos
+  channels because of the errata create (and thus everything fails)
+- the XML file of errata-import.pl is ok, but updated by one person and only
+  for security errata (I think)
+- errata-import.pl had good code, but no RHN integration, and is too easy
+  for missing packages (if 1 package from the errata is there, the errata is
+  created, while other packages might be missing)
+- always different scripts were created/used for redhat and centos errata
+
+So, my script (well, combo of shell and perl) was born:
+For CentOS:
+- first some shell calls to get the latest announces from the centos archive
+  (but not by scraping the announces list, but getting digests, much less
+  traffic then)
+  You can change the number of announces anyway you want by changing the
+  wget command to your liking
+- then the perl script comes along, parsing the digest files and looking in 1
+  channel (yes, one) for package availability and creating the errata there.
+  It has optional integration with RHN for notes, description, topic info, and
+  CVE's and/or can use the OVAL file like the errata-import.pl script does.
+  The created errata gets a suffix based on the OS version and architecture
+  (e.g. ":C5-64" or "C6-32"), because the same errata can exist for multiple
+  OS versions and architectures (and creating the errata for more than one
+  base channel would result in packages being copied which is a mess again).
+  Also a proxy can be defined for spacewalk and or RHN servers
+Or, for RedHat:
+- log in to RHN, get the errata for the specified channel
+  (possibility to define the date range)
+- then follow the same logic as for CentOS

centos-clone-errata.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+# Processes CentOS Errata and imports it into Spacewalk
+
+# Obtains the current date and year.
+DATE=`/bin/date +'%Y-%B'`
+
+# Fetches the errata data from centos.org.
+mkdir /tmp/centos-errata >/dev/null 2>&1
+cd /tmp/centos-errata
+rm -f /tmp/centos-errata/* >/dev/null 2>&1
+# wget needs a proxy? Then set these
+export http_proxy=
+export https_proxy=
+wget -q -O- http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/$DATE/date.html| grep "CentOS-announce Digest" |tail -n 5 |cut -d"\"" -f2|xargs -n1 -I{} wget -q http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/$DATE/{}
+
+# get usernames and passwords
+. ./ya-errata-import.cfg
+/sbin/ya-errata-import.pl --erratadir=/tmp/centos-errata --server spacewalk --channel centos-x86_64-server-6 --os-version 6 --publish --get-from-rhn --rhn-proxy=xxx --quiet
+/sbin/ya-errata-import.pl --erratadir=/tmp/centos-errata --server spacewalk --channel centos-x86_64-server-5 --os-version 5 --publish --get-from-rhn --rhn-proxy=xxx --quiet
+
+rm -f /tmp/centos-errata/*

redhat-clone-errata.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+# Processes RedHat Errata and imports it into Spacewalk
+
+# Obtains the current date and year.
+DATE=`/bin/date +'%Y-%B'`
+
+# get usernames and passwords
+. ./ya-errata-import.cfg
+
+/sbin/ya-errata-import.pl --server spacewalk --channel rhel-i386-server-5 --os-version 5 --publish --redhat --rhn-proxy=xxx --redhat-startfromprevious twoweeks --quiet
+/sbin/ya-errata-import.pl --server spacewalk --channel rhel-i386-server-6 --os-version 6 --publish --redhat --rhn-proxy=xxx --redhat-startfromprevious twoweeks --quiet
+/sbin/ya-errata-import.pl --server spacewalk --channel rhel-x86_64-server-5 --os-version 5 --publish --redhat --rhn-proxy=xxx --redhat-startfromprevious twoweeks --quiet
+/sbin/ya-errata-import.pl --server spacewalk --channel rhel-x86_64-server-6 --os-version 6 --publish --redhat --rhn-proxy=xxx --redhat-startfromprevious twoweeks --quiet

ya-errata-import.cfg

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+export SPACEWALK_USER=my_username
+export SPACEWALK_PASS=my_passwd
+export RHN_USER=my_rhn_username
+export RHN_PASS=my_rhn_password