[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk for both RHEL 6.x and OUL 6.x - Possible?

[Franky Van Liedekerke]

On Thu, 4 Sep 2014 06:39:26 +1000
Avi Miller <avi.miller at oracle.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 4 Sep 2014, at 2:11 am, Glen Collins <glenc2004 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> > I know Spacewalk is now capable of maintaining OUL but trying to
> > get the rpm's from both vendors is confusing. I'm honestly not sure
> > what to look for now as I have tried too many google searches and
> > too many permutations of RHEL and OUL. If someone can just give a
> > link to into it would be appreciated.
> 
> I'm assuming you mean OL or Oracle Linux here? If so, combining both
> RHEL and OL into a single Spacewalk instance is easy, but it'll
> prevent you from getting support from one of the vendors, I suspect.
> For example, if you have an existing Spacewalk 2.2 instance installed
> from the Spacewalk repos, it supports updating from both the Oracle
> Unbreakable Linux Network as well as the public-yum.oracle.com
> repositories. However, you can't get support from Oracle for it.
> 
> Likewise, if you were to use Spacewalk 2.0 provided by Oracle, you'd
> get support from Oracle for the server and any Oracle Linux clients
> you have connected to it, but we wouldn't support RHEL clients.
> 
> Therefore, you just need to pick which scenario you prefer. 
> 
> Though, I didn't think you could connect Spacewalk directly to RHN
> for updates. Doesn't that require a Satellite subscription? If so,
> you would be running Satellite, not Spacewalk. And you'd get support
> from Red Hat for the Satellite deployment. You can still sync the
> Oracle Linux public-yum.oracle.com repos into Satellite, but there is
> no ULN integration. I'd be happy to send you the ULN integration
> script, but I'm not sure what that would do for your support with Red
> Hat. :)
> 

Spacewalk + mrepo works just fine to get Redhat updates into spacewalk.
I don't think spacewalk is supported by redhat anyway, so I would just
go ahead and go for it. At a client of mine, I implemented redhat,
centos, EPEL and custom packages all in spacewalk, with their erratas.

Franky