[Spacewalk-list] question about 3rd party repo's

[Pradeep Kilambi]

Michael DeHaan wrote:
> Pradeep Kilambi wrote:
>> Michiel van Es wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Our servers sometimes use the RPMforge repo.
>>> What is the best way to let the servers use spacewalk but also be able
>>> to use the RPMforge repo?
>>> Can I make a RPMforge channel in spacewalk?
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> Michiel
>>>   
>>
>> Why not jus add the RPM forge repo to your /etc/yum.repos.d and have 
>> it use RPM forge repo along with spacewalk repo. But yea, if you want 
>> to manage all your repos through spacewalk, you should be able to 
>> create a separate custom channel for RPM forge, upload the packages 
>> and subscribe your clients to this channel.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> ~ Prad
>>
>>
>>
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>
> I'd recommend "reposync" which is part of yum-utils.
>
> yum install yum-utils
> man reposync
>
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>

Yep that's what we recommend in our wiki howto for uploading content:

https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/UploadFedoraContent


Thanks,
~ Prad


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