[Spacewalk-list] Feature comparison of Satellite vs. Spacewalk

Coy Hile coy.hile at coyhile.com
Mon Nov 1 14:40:57 UTC 2010


2010/11/1 Miroslav Suchý <msuchy at redhat.com>:
> On 11/01/2010 02:34 PM, Aaron Prayther wrote:
>>
>> I have a systems management infrastructure using Satellite, subversion,
>> puppet and OVAL for a customer and wanted to fully understand the
>> differences between Spacewalk and Satellite.
>
> Spacewalk is upstream to RHN Satellite. It is the same as Fedora is upstream
> for Red Hat Enteprise Linux.
> So we in some moment decide that some snapshot of Spacewalk will be base of
> RHN Satellite. We do a lot of testing, fixing, stabilizing and in the
> meantime Spacewalk continue in its own development.
>
> Once released, we support it, provide training, certifications and fix the
> bugs which RHN Satellite customers reports.
> No one cares about this in Spacewalk.
>

Along the same lines, is there a document that correlates Spacewalk
builds and Satellite releases?  Say, for example, I was setting up a
dev instance (using spacewalk) and wanted to keep the same levels of
functionality as a production Satellite server.

Thanks,

-Coy




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