[Spacewalk-list] Manually accessing a channel using yum

[Tom Brown]

On 16 June 2011 13:26, Jan Pazdziora <jpazdziora at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 01:13:02PM +0100, Tom Brown wrote:
>> > Not really.
>> >
>> > Being able to generate "proper" yum repos from Spacewalk channels is
>> > a natural RFE thou, so if you are an analyst or developer with some
>> > spare time, specs or patches are welcome.
>>
>> OK thanks for the info - However, can i ask where the repo URL for a
>> spacewalk kickstarted host come from? If from a spaewalk generated
>
> They are handlers defined in Apache's conf files.
>
>> kickstart i can see a repo presented to anaconda at install time,
>> surely that should be accesible from else where?
>
> Not really -- the repo is presented on the fly, merging content from
> /var/cache/rhn/repodata, /var/satellite/rhn, and
> /var/satellite/redhat. It's not stored in the repo "tree" anywhere.

generated on the fly by hitting a URL ? If so then cant i hit that URL
from _any_ box?

Fundamentally i'm trying to hit channels that are managed by spacewalk
from machines that dont have spacewalk managed kickstarts, being pure
cobbler instead.

thanks