[Spacewalk-list] reposync and rhnpush

[Michael ORourke]

Mark,

Actually, there has been some message threads about this same issue that are 
in the archives, but yes...  the duplication of packages (RPMs) is common 
with a spacewalk system.  The problem is that the tools such as reposync, 
rsync, and cobbler don't know how to synchronize directly with spacewalk. 
So you have to synchronize all the pkgs locally first, then push them into 
spacewalk.
One of the better solutions I have seen was to create links to the packages 
with the files under /var/satellite.  Then you will only have one copy of 
the actual packages on your system and the links will fool reposync into 
functioning properly.  Now that requires some additional scripting to pull 
that off.  I've seen some say to just delete the reposync'd packages after 
pushing them into spacewalk, but that seems like a huge waste of bandwidth 
because everytime you reposync you will be pulling all the packages down 
again.
Also worth noting... I believe some of the info on the 
<https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/ManagingFedoraSystems> may be 
out-of-date with the most recent release of spacewalk (v0.4).  At least with 
respect to the "Kickstarting Fedora clients" section.

-Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <m.roth2006 at rcn.com>
To: <spacewalk-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 2:48 PM
Subject: [Spacewalk-list] reposync and rhnpush


> Folks,
>
>   I'm looking at the docs, and it says" The [UploadFedoraContent] page 
> describes how to create a channel, reposync your required repositories and 
> then upload the content to spacewalk. At the end of this process you'll 
> end up with a copy of the entire Fedora repository on your disk and 
> another copy living inside of spacewalk (actually in /var/satellite). This 
> consumes quite a bit of space." 
> <https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/ManagingFedoraSystems>
>
>   When I do the reposync, does it overwrite what's in 
> /var/www/html/pub/<channel>, or does it add to it? I *assume* that 
> everything is packaged under /var/satellite, so what's the purpose of 
> what's under /var/www/html/pub?
>
>       mark
>
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