[Spacewalk-list] question about centos4 and 5 as clients

[Leonard Smith]

 A few rpms are missing yet ( yum-rhn-plugin) being a key one, so YMMV


On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Leonard Smith <lrsmith at gmail.com> wrote:
> For those interested and for the short term I put the RPMS  (src and
> binary) that I used on centos 5.x up at
> http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lrsmith/Spacewalk/
>
> I am running spacewalk on a stock CentOS 5.x server and connecting
> using Centos 5.x clients.
>
> The part that I was missing initially is that
> rhel-instnum-1.0.7-1.noarch.rpm needs to be installed on the Spacewalk
> server.
> Also I had trouble with the 0.4.17-8 versiona, but the 0.4.16-2.9 worked fine.
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 7:59 AM, Michiel van Es <michiele at info.nl> wrote:
>> Hi Bob,
>>
>> If they are not too big (nog bigger then 5 MB ) could you mail them to me?
>> We don't have a anonymous public ftp server but we can host the rpm's
>> somewhere.
>>
>> kind regards,
>>
>> Michiel
>>
>>
>> On 15-7-2008 13:54, Bob Huisman wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Currently I do not have a public webserver available to me, if you can
>>> provide me with one I'll be happy to upload them for you.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Bob
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Michiel van Es [mailto:michiele at info.nl]
>>> Sent: dinsdag 15 juli 2008 13:41
>>> To: Bob Huisman
>>> Cc: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
>>> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] question about centos4 and 5 as clients
>>>
>>> Hi Bob,
>>>
>>> Thank you for your reply, but why is no one uploading his/hers rpm's to
>>> some webserver so people don't have to rebuild the rpm's and reinvent
>>> the wheel like i stated before?
>>>
>>> Could you please provide the rpm's to us?
>>>
>>> kind regards,
>>>
>>> Michiel
>>>
>>>
>>> On 15-7-2008 13:38, Bob Huisman wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I remember missing rhel-instnum as well as these:
>>>>
>>>> rhn-check
>>>> rhn-client-tools
>>>> rhnlib
>>>> rhn-setup
>>>> rhn-setup-gnome
>>>>
>>>> I had to build them from the git repo (you will need gcc and
>>> rpm-build).
>>>> Once you got those, you can successfully kickstart a system from your
>>>> Spacewalk server.
>>>>
>>>> yum-rhn-plugin and rhnsd are in the fedora client repo on
>>>> spacewalk.redhat.com
>>>>
>>>> Good luck,
>>>>
>>>> Bob
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com
>>>> [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Michiel van Es
>>>> Sent: dinsdag 15 juli 2008 13:32
>>>> To: John Hodrien
>>>> Cc: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
>>>> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] question about centos4 and 5 as clients
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 15-7-2008 13:24, John Hodrien wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Michiel van Es wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I read in th archives that someone did manage to use a CentOS 5
>>>> client.
>>>>>> But is there someone who managed to write this down in the wiki or
>>>>>> supply rpms?
>>>>> What RPMS are you lacking?  rhel-instnum perhaps, I seem to remember
>>>>> having to add that separately.  Everything else I think I just took
>>>>> from epel and the spacewalk repo.
>>>> The rhel-instnum I got from
>>>> http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/5394302/com/rhel-instnum-1
>>>> .0
>>>> .7-1.SEL5.noarch.rpm.html
>>>>
>>>> The other packages in
>>>> https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/RegisteringClients am I
>>>> missing..
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> is see it is on the to do list but I also see some guys already got
>>>>>> it working on their CentOS 5 systems, so I was wondering if a wiki
>>>>>> page could be made on the spacewalk project website.
>>>>> I've got it running on CentOS 5 x86_64 and i386.
>>>> Well CentOS 5 would be very nice to deploy :) CentOS 4 and 3 is nice
>>>> for the future ;)
>>>>
>>>>> jh
>>>>
>>>> Michiel
>>>>> --
>>>>> "Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
>>>>>   They have to take you in."                          -- Robert Frost
>>>>>
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