[Spacewalk-list] Hardware Vendor Repos

[Ciro Iriarte]

2012/12/12 Ciro Iriarte <cyruspy at gmail.com>

> 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.****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> 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****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> I hope this help you.****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Best regards****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Frank Mikkelsen Blohmé****
>>
>> Axis Communications AB – IT Group****
>>
>> Sweden, Lund****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Hi!, isn't it easier to subscribe a server to one channel and add in the
>> future the needed repositories?, that way you don't have to touch that node
>> in the future (hmm, maybe rhel nodes would need GPG Keys for package from a
>> new repository :s)****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> I'm trying to understand the channel/repo relationship to cover the most
>> common use cases...****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Regards,****
>>
>>
>> ****
>>
>> ** **
>>
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>> Ciro Iriarte
>> http://cyruspy.wordpress.com
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>
> Well, I was happy to split the repositories in different channels to solve
> the GPG key issue, but the management page gives me "invalid URL",
> apparently only local files are used, which defeats the purpose of adding
> the GPG URL for me...
>
> Ref:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/2012-January/msg00202.html
>
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Ciro Iriarte
> http://cyruspy.wordpress.com
> --
>

Well, the form didn't like FTP URLs (my bad?), but accepted a HTTP one. The
clients wont import the key either way according to the mentioned thread,
correct?.

Regards,

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Ciro Iriarte
http://cyruspy.wordpress.com
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