[Spacewalk-list] Mutli distro kickstart issue.

[Paul Robert Marino]

Look at candlepin and subscription manager on a host registered with
Red Hat its actually fairly obvious how to do it with Spacewalk 2.x.
The reason I am not specifically telling any one how to do it is I
just don't know if I would be violating any NDA's and or support
agreements if I wrote a guide on how to do it.

Also a possible alternative I havent had time to fully investigate is
this https://github.com/splice/spacewalk-splice-tool It's used in the
latest version of RHN Satellite 5.x. The one problem is that SAM is
compiled against Jboss 6 and spacewalk is compiled against jpackage 5
so the cant be on the same host. Although in theory if spacewalk could
be compiled against Jpackage 6 or even better Jboss 6 they should be
able to run on the same host. Essentially what it does is it
syncronizes Spacewalk with SAM is the stripped down core of Satellite
6 (its equivalent to a spacewalk proxy) so in theory it could allow
you to have the best of both worlds. My only problem with it is for
some reason it needs Mogodb which I find odd since both Spacewalk and
SAM use PostgreSQL.



On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Boyd, Robert
<Robert.Boyd at peoplefluent.com> wrote:
> Paul Robert Marino,
>
> This sounds intriguing.
>
> You say you hesitate to write it out completely.   I'm wondering if you could give some hints as to how to start the "little research."
> There are a couple of things you've mentioned before where you've said something like this about issues I'm interested in.   I could definitely use some hints about how to pursue things like this.  What tools/knowledge are required to start?  And where does one begin from?  I find it's easy to wind up chasing down many rabbit holes with little return other than learning about a great many things I don't need much for the time spent without some guidance.
>
> Thanks,
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Mutli distro kickstart issue.
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> Unfortunately the core API issue has never been fixed althouth the new method of syncing erratas via the yum repo does not seem to be effected by this so where possible try to use that method instead. the problem is CentOS hasn't adopted this method and I'm not sure about Oracle.
> RHEL its pretty easy now to get the erratas using the new method if you do a little research although I hesitate to write it out for you completely.
>
> ...
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> On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Canalichio, Kevin <canalichio at jmail.metronaviation.com> wrote:
>> I have set up my spacewalk server to have Redhat, Centos, and Oracle
>> linux distros available for kickstart.
>>
>> When kickstarting I will get the following error:
>>
>>
>>
>>   “ The file libart_lgpl-2.3.20-5.1.el6.x86_64 cannot be opened. This
>> is due to a missing file, a corrupted package or corrupted media.”
>>
>>
>>
>> The problem occurs because the md5 checksums are different for the
>> same package name in the each of the different distros. I read
>> somewhere that the satellite server uses some sort of dedup or links
>> to not have multiple copies of the same file, which seems to work fine
>> for updates, but not so well for kickstarts.
>>
>>
>>
>> I can fix this problem by clearing out all three the repos and
>> resyncing the one I want to kickstart. But it take a while for the repo to rsync.
>>
>>
>>
>> I have also found this bug report that no one seems to be working on
>> http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=6977 which references this from the
>> archive
>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/2014-February/msg00048.
>> html
>>
>>
>>
>> Has anyone else seen this, or have a better work around?
>>
>>
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