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

[Michael DeHaan]

Covil, K (Kim) wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mike McCune
> Sent: 30 June 2008 18:02
> To: Covil, K (Kim)
> Cc: 'spacewalk-list at redhat.com'
> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Feature suggestion: refer to external repositories
>
> 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.
>>
>>     

For this, I'd be tempted to just use the config management system to 
install a file in yum.repos.d, and adjust kickstart files appropriately.

Which brings me to my feature request, actual config files in 
yum.repos.d :) I'll file a Trac item.