[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk Client Installation

[Chris Stevens]

> Hi Chris,
> 
> there is nothing like public repo (i.e. accessible without previous
> registration) in spacewalk.
> 
> % Or... do I have to keep doing a 'yum localinstall rhn-client-tools' to % find
> out what dependencies I'm missing and grab them manually one at a % time?
> What a pain in the neck.  I started doing this then figured it % might be an
> exercise of futility on my part.  It might be easier to % mirror the repositories
> locally so I don't have to play the dependency % game... but that would
> defeat one of the reasons I wanted to use % spacewalk in the first place.
> 
> As for initial client package installation you can mirror client repo from
> http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/ under your
> spacewalk:/var/www/html/pub which is publicly accessible via
> http://spacewalk/pub.
> And then create /etc/yum.repos.d/spacewalk-client-pub.repo on client
> 
> [spacewalk-client-pub]
> name=Spacewalk Client Tools
> baseurl=http://spacewalk/pub/client/
> gpgkey=http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/RPM-GPG-KEY-spacewalk-2010
> enabled=1
> gpgcheck=1

That's easy enough, however, what about the fact that the spacewalk client needs stuff from EPEL?  I don't really care to have a local EPEL mirror on my spacewalk server!  :)  

I guess I'm out of luck.  I'll have to download each dependency as it asks for it.

> % So if anyone has any tips on an easy way to install the spacewalk % client
> without an internet connection I'd sure like to hear them.
> %
> % Thanks