[Spacewalk-list] [spacewalk-list] openSUSE

[Alan Pittman]

Hi Chuck,
  I use Spacewalk to manage a couple of opensuse 12.1 machines.

Here's what I've got setup, using 32bit as the example:
Parent Channel:

Channel Name: 	opensuse12.1-i586
Channel Label: 	opensuse12.1-32bit
Parent Channel: 	(none)
Yum Repository Checksum Type: 	sha1
Architecture: 	IA-32

Update channel (note: I have two child channels, just showing the update channel here):

Channel Name: 	opensuse12.1-i586-updates
Channel Label: 	opensuse12.1-32bit-updates
Parent Channel: 	opensuse12.1-i586
Yum Repository Checksum Type: 	sha1
Architecture: 	IA-32
Summary: 	opensuse12.1 32bit update channel
 
Repo for the update channel:

Repo label: opensuse12.1-32bit-updates-repo
Repo URL: http://download.opensuse.org/update/12.1/

To sync the channel, I created a script that I schedule via cron:
[root at taeps001 ~]# cat /usr/local/bin/sync-opensuse12-32.sh
#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/spacewalk-repo-sync --channel opensuse12.1-32bit-updates --type yum

When the sync runs, I get a log of messages that look like this:

Package arch x86_64 incompatible with channel opensuse12.1-32bit-updates

You need not worry about them, opensuse places both i586 and x86_64 rpms in the same remote repository. Spacewalk will receive them, but since I'm are trying to sync a 32 bit channel (ia-32), the x86_64 packages just exist in "limbo". Going to "Manage Software Packages" and in the Channel field, select "packages with no channels", the x86_64 packages will display. 

If you create an opensuse x86_64 channel and run a sync, these "limbo" packages get pushed into the x86_64 channel. At least, that what it appears to do.
 
On the opensuse machine, I just followed these procedures: https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/RegisteringClients.
The machines don't have internet access, so I manually downloaded the spacewalk-client packages and installed them.
The opensuse client packages can be found here: baseurl=http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/1.7/openSUSE_12.1/

Hope this helps.

Alan  

-----Original Message-----
From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of themaster001
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 9:24 PM
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: [Spacewalk-list] [spacewalk-list] openSUSE

Guys,

I am looking on how to set up openSUSE on my spacewalk server. I have
googled and I found the SuSE product base on spacewalk, but I want to
set up openSUSE on spacewalk.

Also, how stable is Debian, is there a good how to on it.

Thanks,

Chuck

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