[Spacewalk-list] Firewall requires internal Mirroring EPEL and spacewalk repos

[Jan Hutař]

On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 08:55:39 -0400 "Boyd, Robert"
<Robert.Boyd at peoplefluent.com> wrote:

> Jan,
> 
> I don't comprehend what you are suggesting.  
> 
> The instructions clearly require the installation of the
> spacewalk client prior to completing the registration.  
> 
> The clients I am working with are inside a firewall so they do
> not have access to the Internet directly.  This means they
> must be provided with access to the client software by having
> a repository accessible inside the firewall.  

I see. Please ignore mine comment. Sorry for mess.

Jan



> Is there some way to register a client before installing the
> spacewalk-client packages?
> 
> Robert
> 
> On Aug 30, 2012, at 0:15, "Jan Hutař" <jhutar at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:41:11 -0400 "Boyd, Robert"
> > <Robert.Boyd at peoplefluent.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> If you look in the text below everywhere it says to install
> >> spacewalk-client-repo or epel-release I'm going to be able
> >> to pull down those RPMs and install them         -- then
> >> I'll need to go into the /etc/yum.repos.d/spacewalk.repo and
> >> epel.repo and fix up the baseurl to point to something on my
> >> Spacewalk server and/or proxy server.   That's the part I'm
> >> uncertain of at this point.    Or do I have to copy/link the
> >> files from inside of spacewalk's repositories to something
> >> accessible underneath the /pub tree and use that as the
> >> baseurl?
> > 
> > Hello,
> > if you register client into Spacewalk, you do not have to
> > set /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo - yum-rhn-plugin used by yum to
> > communicate to Spacewalk subscribes your client into given
> > Spacewalk channels - no repo files will be created,
> > yum-rhn-plugin just handles this.
> > 
> > Check:
> >  https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/RegisteringClients
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Jan
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Jan Hutar     Systems Management QA
> > jhutar at redhat.com     Red Hat, Inc.


-- 
Jan Hutar     Systems Management QA
jhutar at redhat.com     Red Hat, Inc.
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