[Spacewalk-list] Need for a lightweight mirroring solution

[Covil, K (Kim)]

> From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Michael DeHaan
> Sent: 21 July 2008 13:38
> To: Jon Stanley
> Cc: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Need for a lightweight mirroring solution
>
> Jon Stanley wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 8:05 AM, Michael DeHaan <mdehaan at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Many questions I get on cobbler's mailing list deal with using
> >> yum_rhn_plugin to mirror RHEL packages.   These are typically from
> users who
> >> have small-mid size environments that cannot use Satellite for
> various
> >> reasons.
> >>
> >
> > That;s why we have spacewalk now :)
> >
> >
> Well, no, the problem is still the same.    The small disconnected labs
> are looking to a solution, and they need to buy Satellite in order to
> do
> mirroring, even if they only have 10 systems.
>

This seems like a perfect situation for the suggestion made earlier about allowing Spacewalk to refer to external repositories. Use squid to only cache the packages required by the 10 systems rather than downloading the entire RHEL/CentOS repository, and just handle package lists in Spacewalk rather than the packages themselves.

Regards,

Kim
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