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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Here’s how I manage opensuse, hopefully this helps. This is an answer to similar question a while back.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Hi Chuck,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> I use Spacewalk to manage a couple of opensuse 12.1 machines.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Here's what I've got setup, using 32bit as the example:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Parent Channel:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Channel Name: opensuse12.1-i586<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Channel Label: opensuse12.1-32bit<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Parent Channel: (none)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Yum Repository Checksum Type: sha1<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Architecture: IA-32<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Update channel (note: I have two child channels, just showing the update channel here):<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Channel Name: opensuse12.1-i586-updates<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Channel Label: opensuse12.1-32bit-updates<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Parent Channel: opensuse12.1-i586<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Yum Repository Checksum Type: sha1<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Architecture: IA-32<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Summary: opensuse12.1 32bit update channel<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Repo for the update channel:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Repo label: opensuse12.1-32bit-updates-repo<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Repo URL: <a href="http://download.opensuse.org/update/12.1/">
http://download.opensuse.org/update/12.1/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">To sync the channel, I created a script that I schedule via cron:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">[root@taeps001 ~]# cat /usr/local/bin/sync-opensuse12-32.sh<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">#!/bin/bash<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">/usr/bin/spacewalk-repo-sync --channel opensuse12.1-32bit-updates --type yum<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">When the sync runs, I get a log of messages that look like this:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Package arch x86_64 incompatible with channel opensuse12.1-32bit-updates<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">You need not worry about them, opensuse places both i586 and x86_64 rpms in the same remote repository. Spacewalk will receive them, but since I'm are trying to sync a 32 bit channel (ia-32), the x86_64 packages just exist in "limbo".
Going to "Manage Software Packages" and in the Channel field, select "packages with no channels", the x86_64 packages will display.
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<p class="MsoPlainText">If you create an opensuse x86_64 channel and run a sync, these "limbo" packages get pushed into the x86_64 channel. At least, that what it appears to do.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">On the opensuse machine, I just followed these procedures:
<a href="https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/RegisteringClients">https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/RegisteringClients</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The machines don't have internet access, so I manually downloaded the spacewalk-client packages and installed them.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The opensuse client packages can be found here: baseurl=http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/1.7/openSUSE_12.1/<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Hope this helps.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Alan <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>trumpjk@gmail.com<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 13, 2012 3:29 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> spacewalk-list@redhat.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Spacewalk-list] Register Suse Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Can someone point me to instructions on how to configure a suse system to use spacewalk?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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