[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk, mrepo and RHN integration

Tom Brown tom at ng23.net
Mon Mar 14 23:24:31 UTC 2011





> Hi,
> 
> I'm in the process of setting up Spacewalk with mrepo to distribute
> content from RHN. Looking at docs and previous messages on the list it
> looks like downloading packages from RHN via mrepo (rhnget) and then
> pushing them into spacewalk is the way forward?
> 
> My only concern with this method is we end up using twice as much disk
> space as is necessary. Is there another way I'm missing?
> 
> Thanks
> Craig
> 


Well yeah but disk is cheap right? Also mrepo deletes packages once there is an update so you'll only have a single version of a package in mrepo but them all in spacewalk. 

I run it this way and can't really say it's a hog, and I even sync fedora 13 and 14 and that's a lotta packages. 




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