[katello-devel] Non-RHEL clients and bootstrapping

[Lukas Zapletal]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 07:48:21AM -0400, Bryan Kearney wrote:
> On 08/20/2012 06:24 AM, Lukas Zapletal wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >on the user list there is a report from Scientific Linux. The bootstrap
> >RPM cannot configure rhsm, I guess its because there is none on his
> >system.
> >
> >So to support RHEL clones, we need to ask users to install both rhsm and
> >katello client. We have not been telling this in our client installation
> >wiki page, so I did this (quite a huge) change:
> >
> >https://fedorahosted.org/katello/wiki/GuideSystemRegistrationClient
> >
> >https://fedorahosted.org/katello/wiki/GuideSystemRegistrationClient?action=diff&version=27&old_version=26
> >
> >Please test.
> >
> >I will also add a test in the post RPM script - if one of the components
> >is not found, warning will be issued (currently it exits with error
> >only).
> >
> >LZ
> >
> Should the configrpm require subscription-manager?

No cos we do not deliver it and for RHEL clones this would give you
error during install (unless there is a repo).

What we could do is to deliver rhsm in our client Katello repository.
Then it would work.

-- 
Later,

 Lukas "lzap" Zapletal
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