Add SLES11-SP2(-Updates) to Novell SMT Repository Mirroring

Written by Claudio Kuenzler - 2 comments

Published on May 23rd 2012 - Listed in Linux Internet

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Already a couple of months ago (in February 2012), SP2 of SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 was released. If you use smt-repo to mirror updates, you will have noticed that SP2 was not in the list when the command 'smt-list-products' was launched and therefore could not be mirrored.

This was due to the fact that SP2 simply hasn't been added to https://nu.novell.com/repo/repoindex.xml.  Each time the mirroring process starts, this file is downloaded and checked for available products. This xml file contains all SUSE products which can be mirrored by SMT. Yesterday I opened a support case, asking Novell to add SP2 to this xml file and only an hour later I got the answer that SP2 has been added now.

The following steps explain how to add SLES11-SP2-Updates to your mirror.

1. Launch smt-ncc-sync to download the latest product informations. It should detect new mirrorable repositories:

# smt-ncc-sync
Downloading Product information
Downloading Target information
Downloading repository information
Downloading Product/Repository relations
Downloading Subscription information
Downloading Registration information
Flagged repositories which can be mirrored
* New mirrorable repository 'SLES11-SP2-Updates sle-11-x86_64' .
* New mirrorable repository 'SLES11-SP2-Updates sle-11-i586' .

2. Check which products can be mirrored. Use smt-repos -m. Before Novell added the SP2 Updates, only the core was shown in the list:

# smt-repos -m | grep SLES11-SP2
| No | 193 | nu | SLES11-SP2-Core         | sle-11-i586    | SLES11-SP2-Core for sle-11-i586
| No | 194 | nu | SLES11-SP2-Core         | sle-11-x86_64  | SLES11-SP2-Core for sle-11-x86_64
| No | 195 | nu | SLES11-SP2-Extension-St | sle-11-i586    | SLES11-SP2-Extension-Store for sle-11-i586
| No | 196 | nu | SLES11-SP2-Extension-St | sle-11-x86_64  | SLES11-SP2-Extension-Store for sle-11-x86_64 

Since Novell has added SLES11-SP2-Updates to repoindex.xml, the list now looks like this:

# smt-repos -m | grep SLES11-SP2
| No | 193 | nu | SLES11-SP2-Core         | sle-11-i586    | SLES11-SP2-Core for sle-11-i586
| No | 194 | nu | SLES11-SP2-Core         | sle-11-x86_64  | SLES11-SP2-Core for sle-11-x86_64
| No | 195 | nu | SLES11-SP2-Extension-St | sle-11-i586    | SLES11-SP2-Extension-Store for sle-11-i586
| No | 196 | nu | SLES11-SP2-Extension-St | sle-11-x86_64  | SLES11-SP2-Extension-Store for sle-11-x86_64  
| No | 197 | nu | SLES11-SP2-Updates      | sle-11-i586    | SLES11-SP2-Updates for sle-11-i586
| No | 198 | nu | SLES11-SP2-Updates      | sle-11-x86_64  | SLES11-SP2-Updates for sle-11-x86_64

3. Activate mirroring for SP2-Updates. Use the product name (SLES11-SP2-Updates) to get a detailed list of architectures ready to mirror.
Then answer the question (Select repository number) by hitting the ID of the architecture(s) you want to mirror:

# smt-repos -e SLES11-SP2-Updates
.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------.
| Mirr? | ID | Type | Name               | Target        | Description                      |
+---------+----+------+--------------------+---------------+--------------------------------+
| No |  1 | nu   | SLES11-SP2-Updates | sle-11-i586   | SLES11-SP2-Updates for sle-11-i586  |
| No |  2 | nu   | SLES11-SP2-Updates | sle-11-ia64   | SLES11-SP2-Updates for sle-11-ia64  |
| No |  3 | nu   | SLES11-SP2-Updates | sle-11-ppc64  | SLES11-SP2-Updates for sle-11-ppc64 |
| No |  4 | nu   | SLES11-SP2-Updates | sle-11-s390x  | SLES11-SP2-Updates for sle-11-s390x |
| No |  5 | nu   | SLES11-SP2-Updates | sle-11-x86_64 | SLES11-SP2-Updates for sle-11-x86_64|
'---------+----+------+--------------------+---------------+--------------------------------'
Select repository number (or all) to change,  (1-5,a) :5
1 Repo(s) enabled.

4. Verify that this repository is shown in your mirrored repositories:

# smt-repos -o
.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------.
| Mirr? | ID | Type | Name               | Target        | Description                        |
+---------+----+------+--------------------+---------------+----------------------------------+
| Yes |  1 | nu   | SLES11-SP1-Pool    | sle-11-x86_64 | SLES11-SP1-Pool for sle-11-x86_64    |
| Yes |  2 | nu   | SLES11-SP1-Updates | sle-11-i586   | SLES11-SP1-Updates for sle-11-i586   |
| Yes |  3 | nu   | SLES11-SP1-Updates | sle-11-x86_64 | SLES11-SP1-Updates for sle-11-x86_64 |
| Yes |  4 | nu   | SLES11-SP2-Updates | sle-11-x86_64 | SLES11-SP2-Updates for sle-11-x86_64 |
| Yes |  5 | nu   | SLES11-Updates     | sle-11-i586   | SLES11-Updates for sle-11-i586       |
| Yes |  6 | nu   | SLES11-Updates     | sle-11-x86_64 | SLES11-Updates for sle-11-x86_64     |
'---------+----+------+--------------------+---------------+----------------------------------'

Next time the mirroring process is launched (usually by /usr/lib/SMT/bin/smt-daily which is called by /etc/cron.d/novell.com-smt), the SLES11-SP2-Updates will be mirrored.

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Claudio from Switzerland wrote on Jun 1st, 2012:

Hmm I actually dont know and I cant verify that anymore (changed job today). My guess would be that the "-Online" was replaced by "-Core". Could you test that?
What I did anyway on the mirror server was to save the iso file on the same server, mount it as loop device and present the content on the repo website.

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Johannes from wrote on Jun 1st, 2012:

Hi,

Thanks for this blod entry - it helped a lot.
Do you know the following: With SLES10 there were "-Online" repos - are they gone with SLES11?

greetings from Salzburg,
Johannes

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