[Pulp-list] Pointing Spacewalk to Pulp

[Cliff Perry]

On 28/04/15 14:22, JP wrote:
> Good Morning,
>    I just starting working with Pulp, and one of the folks I work with
> asked if it is possible to point Spacewalk to use Pulp, basically as a
> repo, but use Spacewalk for it's ability to check differences between
> servers and bring any out of conformity to the same. They asked me to
> set up Pulp as a way to manage various repos, specifically varying
> versions for varying architectures, that is, a single place to point,
> locally within our internal network, that could house, for example, a
> RHEL 5, RHEL 6, and RHEL 7.  It's been some time since I worked with
> Spacewalk, and don't remember the exact functionality that it provides.
> Anyway, thought I'd throw it to the list to see.  Honestly, I thought
> Spacewalk was basically the same thing as Pulp, but I guess it didn't
> fit the need here for managing varying releases and architectures.
> Perhaps this is functionality the Pulp provides and I am getting off on
> the wrong path to begin with, but I think essentially they wanted to use
> Spacewalk to align various servers through comparison, to the same, and
> the reporting functionality that would show which servers don't match,
> etc.  Am I in left field about all this?
> Thanks,
> Jason
>

So Spacewalk has the ability to point to 3rd party yum repos and pull in 
content from that repo. This process is for Spacewalk to create custom 
channels and create (yum) repositories urls and then associate the two 
together. It then pulls in yum repos either one time, or on a regularly 
scheduled basis.

This ability only works for open/unauthenticated repositories.

By mixing RHEL 5, 6 & 7 into the mix, I'm not sure how you plan to get 
them into pulp in the first place. If you used pulp as part of Satellite 
6, those repositories are protected by a layer of authentication that is 
not available to Spacewalk by default.

So, for community repositories, it should just work - but depending on 
how you want to use product content such as RHEL, your mileage may vary.

Cliff

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