[Spacewalk-list] Managing the size on disk of software channels

[Paul Brunck]

Thank you.  I definitely had an issue with duplicate files but after a little troubleshooting the duplicate files were from channels I had deleted.  Once I used "Manage Packages" to delete all the orphans, then synced everything from scratch to defined repositories the deduplication you are talking about started working.

On Feb 1, 2013, at 10:52 AM, Paul Robert Marino <prmarino1 at gmail.com<mailto:prmarino1 at gmail.com>> wrote:

No the spacewalk server will save them in the same place so based on either the checksum or the signature I'm not sure which its using. But essentially it will dedup itself.



-- Sent from my HP Pre3

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On Feb 1, 2013 12:01 PM, Paul Brunck <Paul.Brunck at healthlanguage.com<mailto:Paul.Brunck at healthlanguage.com>> wrote:

In order to use kickstart it is recommended that you use a child channel that has tools for kickstart. Suppose you put the RPMs from an install dvd in a repository under Manage Repositories and the spacewalk client tools under a 2nd repository. Then in channels you make a parent channel that includes the rpms from the dvd and a child channel that includes the rpms from both the dvd and the Spacewalk client tools. Does this mean that you will end up with 2 copies of every rpm under /var/satellite/redhat from the install dvd and thereby waste 3-4GB of space?

Paul Brunck
Health Language, Inc.
System Administrator

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