[Spacewalk-list] Feature suggestion: refer to external repositories

[Kevin Fox]

That would help Spacewalk and Cobbler play nicer together.

On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 09:34 -0700, Covil, K (Kim) wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I think it would be really useful if Spacewalk could refer to external
> repositories rather than have to maintain a copy of all RPMs itself.
> It could retrieve repository headers in the same way yum does, and
> when you select to install a package on a subscribed system, the
> system could be given the external repository URL to download from. A
> further enhancement to this would allow an internal web proxy url to
> be specified to allow squid or such like to provide local caching for
> a network. This would move Spacewalk more to managing systems and what
> packages they have installed than managing the actual packages
> themselves. It would also dramatically cut down the local storage
> requirements.
>  
> Regards,
>  
> Kim
> -- 
> Linux Enhancement Project
> Email: kim.covil at rabobank.com
> Direct: +44 207 809 3411
>  
>  
> 
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