[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk for Novell SLES

[Cliff Perry]

On 11/12/2012 04:35 PM, Sabine.Jordan at der.net wrote:
> Hello Pietro,
>
> actually I am updating 2 servers running SLES11 SP2 via Spacewalk. I am also new to spacewalk, but I've done some testing with Centos6 and SLES11 SP2 servers :)
>
> I am using spacewalk 1.8.
>
> See: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/1.8/SLE_11_SP2/
>
> I am not sure if it works for any other version than SLES11 SP2.
>
> I've added the following repositories/channels, where user and pw are your mirror credentials for using the channels below. You can find them if you login to your account at http://www.novell.com/center (My Products/Mirror Credentials)
>
> SLES11-SP2-Novel (Parent Channel)
> https://user:pw@nu.novell.com/repo/%24RCE/SLES11-SP2-Core/sle-11-x86_64/
>
> Child Channels:
> SLES11-SP2-Updates-Novel
> https://user:pw@nu.novell.com/repo/%24RCE/SLES11-SP2-Updates/sle-11-x86_64/
> SLES11-SDK-SP2-Novel
> https://user:pw@nu.novell.com/repo/%24RCE/SLE11-SDK-SP2-Core/sle-11-x86_64
> SLES11-SDK-SP2-Updates-Novel
> https://user:pw@nu.novell.com/repo/%24RCE/SLE11-SDK-SP2-Updates/sle-11-x86_64/
> Spacewalk-1.8
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/1.8/SLE_11_SP2/
>
> After installing the following packages I could register my sles11 sp2 server to spacewalk:
>
> newt pyhton-newt libnewt zypp-plugin-python rhnlib rhn-client-tools zypp-plugin-spacewalk rhnsd rhn-setup rhn-check
>
> You may need additional packages (like rhncfg rhncfg-actions rhncfg-client) if you like to use remote commands...
>
> Greetings, Sabine
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] Im Auftrag von Pietro Leone
> Gesendet: Montag, 12. November 2012 16:20
> An: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> Betreff: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk for Novell SLES
>
> Hallo, I do not find any documentation for using spacewalk for updating
> Novel SLES servers. Several HowTos talk about OpenSuSE, but no info
> about SLES. Have someone any suggestion?
>
> Thanks, Pietro.

And, if you find this feedback useful, please, can we maybe add a brief 
section to the wiki for Spacewalk Client's.
  - I'd be happy to copy/paste, if Peitro, you are able to confirm that 
these instructions helped you out a lot.

Regards,
Cliff