[Spacewalk-list] Auto-Installation packages from Systems->Keys

Fri Apr 8 00:54:11 UTC 2016

Hi,

You can get all of those packages installed without registration IF they're in one of the channels available during the kickstart process AND you've deployed the correct GPG key for the packages. If you're using the upstream Spacewalk packages, you need to deploy the RPM-GPG-KEY-spacewalk-2015 key first, before these packages will install.

I deploy all of those during kickstart without a problem using the builds from Oracle (because my target servers already have the Oracle Linux GPG key installed) and on my CentOS boxes, I deploy the GPG key during the kickstart process itself and then these packages are installed automatically by Spacewalk to enable registration. About the only ones you have to manually deploy are the rhncfg-* packages.

For example, Spacewalk will automatically deploy rhn-virtualization-host if the activation key used is entitled to either VIrtualization or Virtualization Platform. Likewise, the standard client RPMs will be deployed if Spacewalk detects them in one of the enabled child channels in the kickstart profile.

Cheers,
Avi

> On 8 Apr 2016, at 10:41 AM, Konstantin Raskoshnyi <konrasko at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I thought i'd work for a new kickstart machine...for example if I put these packages they won't be installed, because first - you need to register your machine.
> I then you need to add packages into your kickstart.
> rhn-client-tools
> rhn-check
> rhn-setup
> rhnsd
> m2crypto
> yum-rhn-plugin
> rhncfg-actions
> rhn-virtualization-host
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 3:59 PM, Avi Miller <avi.miller at oracle.com <mailto:avi.miller at oracle.com>> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It works fine for me. :) YMMV.
> 
> 1. Deploy the GPG keys for your target channels (via Kickstart or Configuration Channel or some other method)
> 2. Ensure the correct software channels are enabled for the activation key
> 3. List the packages you want installed by that key
> 
> The kicker is usually step 1: making sure your target systems have the appropriate GPG key for the packages you want the activation key to install. It would be super peachy keen if you could associate GPG keys with activation keys so that it's more obvious.
> 
> Note that step 2 can be tricky too, because the activation key will override the kickstart channels. So it's not cumulative, it's a replacement.
> 
> Cheers,
> Avi
> 
>> On 8 Apr 2016, at 8:42 AM, Lachlan Musicman <datakid at gmail.com <mailto:datakid at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Konstantin,
>> 
>> I disagree with Avi in that "it works". I have also not known it to work on Kickstarted machines. I found I had to add the packages to the software list under profiles.
>> 
>> I am sure that is how it's meant to work - it would appear to be a good thing and an obvious functionality. But I've never known it to work either. My suspicion is on the cobbler/spacewalk snippets, but it's hard to pin down.
>> 
>> I also found that the files weren't distributed on Kickstart without shoe-horning them in with a post install script.
>> 
>> Let me know if you need the script to see it working.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> L.
>> 
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>> On 8 April 2016 at 07:41, Avi Miller <avi.miller at oracle.com <mailto:avi.miller at oracle.com>> wrote:
>> It works if the packages are in a channel that is activated by the same key. It also requires any GPG keys required by those packages to already be installed on the target system.
>> 
>> On the plus side, it works regardless of whether the system was kickstarted by Spacewalk or not. Assuming you have the keys in place, any system registered with that key will attempt to install the packages listed.
>> 
>> > On 8 Apr 2016, at 6:23 AM, Konstantin Raskoshnyi <konrasko at gmail.com <mailto:konrasko at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> > I found a great function, if you go to Systems->Activation keys->%KEY%->Packages
>> >
>> > Seems like they should be installed on every system kickstarted with this key.
>> >
>> > But it doesn't work. There're no logs too.
>> >
>> > I feel like this works only the system added to the spacewalk, but then it doesn't make sense at all.
>> >
>> > Any thoughts?
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