[Spacewalk-list] Feature suggestion: refer to external repositories

[Covil, K (Kim)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jan Pazdziora
> Sent: 01 July 2008 12:03
> To: Mike McCune
> Cc: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Feature suggestion: refer to external
> repositories
>
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:02:20AM -0700, Mike McCune wrote:
> >
> > Create a channel that gets its content from somewhere else.  Any
> > requests for content from that channel get proxied to the real
> source.
>
> Could the client just go directly to the external repository (no
> proxying via Spacewalk server), and only report back installed
> packages?
>
> --
> Jan Pazdziora
> Satellite Engineering, Red Hat

Yes, but then you can't use the Spacewalk interface to browse and install new packages. I don't think you necessarily need the Spacewalk server to proxy the requests, but I do think you'd want the Spacewalk server to know what packages are available for install and be able to tell you when newer versions are available.

Regards,

Kim
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