[Spacewalk-list] Hardware Vendor Repos

[Ciro Iriarte]

2012/12/10 Cameron Kerr <cameron.kerr at otago.ac.nz>

>  The non-rpm files will not pose a problem. I imported HPs repo a few
> says ago without problem.
>
>  I would wonder though why you don't have more o a 1:1 repo:channel
> relationship, and then manage membership using the same methodology as with
> channels.
>
>  For example, I have custom channels for each third-part/ISV component
> that makes up part of our standard opener rating environment (SOE).
>
>  You could then also have separate activation keys which enable a
> particular SOE +HP_Proliant, or +VMWare_guest. You could then put in some
> logic in the kick start which does some hardware inspection and uses a
> comma-separated list of activation keys. However, this is currently a
> hypothesis, and is not something I have actively explored.
>
> --
> Cameron Kerr
>
> On 11/12/2012, at 3:09 AM, "Ciro Iriarte" <cyruspy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Hi!, do you guys usually include repo from hardware vendors?, HP and
> Dell have their utilities in public repositories but HP includes some non
> RPM files in there also, can that be handled by spacewalk?
>
>  Ref:
> http://downloads.linux.hp.com/SDR/downloads/SPP/suse/SLES11/x86_64/current/
>
>  Currently I have 4 channels with all the related repositories linked to
> them:
> sles11-x86_64-vmware
> sles11-x86_64
> rhel5-x86_64
> rhel6-x86_64
>
>  What would be the best way to organize them?, should I keep this
> organization adding Dell and HP to each channel or create different
> channels with repos for each vendor?
>
>
>  Regards,
>
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> Ciro Iriarte
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Well, currently I have a channel for each Distro/Arch in production and
each of them is linked to many repositories (sles+obs, rhel+epel, etc).
This is my first installation of SW so I'm not sure if this is the way to
go.


Regads,

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Ciro Iriarte
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