[Spacewalk-list] RHEL repos in spacewalk ?

[Musayev, Ilya]

There is plenty of info on the web.
In the nutshell depending on how you want this to function you can either use mrepo (to get point in time latest packages from rhn) or rhn_get to get full replica of the subscribed channel. You will need to create system ids or just copy them from entitled hosts to one server. Once you get RPMs you can either have utilities named above create yum repo metadata or run create repo locally with update option.
You can run package import into a channel nightly or whatever frequency you prefer.
In terms of errata cloning, there are several scripts available as well, depending on your preference. I know if two which work well, one by andy speagle named "rhn-clone-errata" and another one by paul marino, if you search this mailing list, you will see the references to both.
NOTE: make sure package import occurs before errata clone.
From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jerome Bossert
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 4:42 PM
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: [Spacewalk-list] RHEL repos in spacewalk ?

Hi List,

I'm fairly new to both RHEL and Spacewalk, and i have an issue to update my RHEL servers, I'm missing something.
I've chosen Spacewalk rather then "redhat satellite server" because I want to be able to manage my Solaris (Sparc) and Suse boxes as well in a near future.


NEEDS :
I have a high number of RHEL 5.x /6.x servers to manage/update. Right now they have an active subscription to "rhn classic subscription management" with red hat, and it's working well.
I've installed Spacewalk 1.7, I can add/see my testing RHEL5 server, I can create a channel "rhel5".

PROBLEM :
But now I want this channel to be (automatically and frequently) populated (and locally downloaded) with the official RHEL packages (in my case v. 5 for 64-bit x86_64), and being able to update my test server from Spacewalk.

Would you help me out to point what I'm missing ?

Thanks a lot,

Jerome


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