A python script to call the syncRepo method from the Spacewalk API (http://www.spacewalkproject.org/documentation/api/2.1/handlers/ChannelSoftwareHandler.html#syncRepo). Configuration file example: https://gist.github.com/rafaelfelix/9844244

spacewalk-api-syncrepo.py

#!/usr/bin/python
# Script that calls the channels.software.syncRepo Spacewalk API method
#
# Author: Rafael Felix Correa <rafael.felix@gmail.com>
#
# This script is based on https://raw.githubusercontent.com/angrox/spacewalk-api-scripts/master/spacewalk-rhn-sync/spacewalk-rhn-sync.py
# Special thanks to Martin Zehetmayer <angrox@idle.at>
#
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#
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#


import xmlrpclib
import httplib
import ConfigParser
import optparse
import sys
import os

from subprocess import *
from optparse import OptionParser

def parse_args():
    parser = OptionParser()
    parser.add_option("-s", "--spw-server", type="string", dest="spw_server",
            help="Spacewalk Server")
    parser.add_option("-u", "--spw-user", type="string", dest="spw_user",
            help="Spacewalk User")
    parser.add_option("-p", "--spw-pass", type="string", dest="spw_pass",
            help="Spacewalk Password")
    parser.add_option("-c", "--channel-label", type="string", dest="channel_label",
            help="Channel Label: ie.\"rhel-x86_64-server-6\"")
    parser.add_option("-f", "--config-file", type="string", dest="cfg_file",
            help="Config file for this CLI")
    parser.add_option("-v", "--verbose", action="store_true", dest="verbose", default=False)
    parser.add_option("-q", "--quiet", action="store_true", dest="quiet", default=False)

    (options,args) = parser.parse_args()
    return options


def main():         
    # Get the options
    options = parse_args()
    # read the config
    if options.cfg_file is None:
        print "Need a configurations file!"
        print "Try use the --help option!"
        sys.exit(2)
        
    config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
    config.read (options.cfg_file)

    if options.spw_server is None:
        options.spw_server = config.get ('Spacewalk', 'spw_server')
    if options.spw_user is None:
        options.spw_user = config.get ('Spacewalk', 'spw_user')
    if options.spw_pass is None:
        options.spw_pass = config.get ('Spacewalk', 'spw_pass')
    if options.channel_label is None:
        options.channel_label = config.get ('Spacewalk', 'channel_label')

    spacewalk = xmlrpclib.Server("https://%s/rpc/api" % options.spw_server, verbose=0)
    spacekey = spacewalk.auth.login(options.spw_user, options.spw_pass)

    spacewalk.channel.software.syncRepo(spacekey, options.channel_label)

    spacewalk.auth.logout(spacekey)


## MAIN
if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()