[Spacewalk-list] Hardware Vendor Repos

[Ciro Iriarte]

2012/12/12 Frank Mikkelsen Blohmé <frank.mikkelsen.blohme at axis.com>

> In Spacewalk you can only tie one RPM GPG key to a software channel, so
> syncing in RPM packages from various sources signed with different RPM GPG
> keys isn’t recommended. This can be circumvented by resigning all RPM
> packages with your own RPM GPG key before syncing them to Spacewalk. But
> then you will have to download the RPM packages somewhere before resigning
> them.****
>
> This is why a 1:1 relationship is most convenient, one repo (one RPM GPG
> key) to one Spacewalk software channel.****
>
> It’s easy to subscribe a host to a new channel in the GUI, can also be
> done on command line.****
>
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>
> So if you have to add a new repo with RPM packages in the future:****
>
> **1.       **Create a new software channel in Spacewalk, a child channel
> to the base channel to which the host is subscribed.****
>
> **2.       **Configure the software channel using the repo’s RPM GPG key *
> ***
>
> **3.       **Sync the RPMs in the repo into the software channel.****
>
> **4.       **Subscribe the host to the new software channel****
>
> **5.       **Install the RPMs on the host****
>
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>
> I hope this help you.****
>
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> Best regards****
>
> ** **
>
> Frank Mikkelsen Blohmé****
>
> Axis Communications AB – IT Group****
>
> Sweden, Lund****
>
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> **
>

Thanks for the explanation!!

Regards,

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Ciro Iriarte
http://cyruspy.wordpress.com
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