[Spacewalk-list] some questions

[Michiel van Es]

Hi,

My work situation:

-CentOS 5 spacewalk server
-CentOS 4 and 5 clients

I have a CentOS 5 spacewalk server which gets its updates with reposync.
Besided the default yum repos in /etc/yum.repo.d/ , I made 2 extra 
repos's to fetch with reposync:

CentOS4_updates.repo

released updates
[CentOS4_updates]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=4&arch=$basearch&repo=updates
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-4


CentOS5_updates.repo


#released updates
[CentOS5_updates]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updates
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

And push the updates with rhnpush daily.

I installed the client software described on:
https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/RegisteringClients

The problem is that I will only see bind updates for my CentOS 5 clients 
on the server but when I run a yum update on the clients I find much more:

[root at devgnudb01 scripts]# yum update
Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
  * base: ftp.nluug.nl
  * updates: ftp.nluug.nl
  * addons: ftp.nluug.nl
  * centos5_updates: devmx01.buro.info.nl
  * extras: ftp.nluug.nl
base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
updates                   100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
addons                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
centos5_updates           100% |=========================| 1.2 kB    00:00
extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package Deployment_Guide-en-US.noarch 0:5.2-11.el5.centos set to be 
updated
---> Package bind-libs.i386 30:9.3.4-6.0.2.P1.el5_2 set to be updated
---> Package bind-utils.i386 30:9.3.4-6.0.2.P1.el5_2 set to be updated
---> Package bluez-utils.i386 0:3.7-2.2.el5.centos set to be updated
---> Package bluez-libs.i386 0:3.7-1.1 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
  Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
=============================================================================
Updating:
  Deployment_Guide-en-US  noarch     5.2-11.el5.centos  centos5_updates 
   3.5 M
  bind-libs               i386       30:9.3.4-6.0.2.P1.el5_2 
centos5_updates   8 
                          46 k
  bind-utils              i386       30:9.3.4-6.0.2.P1.el5_2 
centos5_updates   1 
                          67 k
  bluez-libs              i386       3.7-1.1          centos5_updates 
  55 k
  bluez-utils             i386       3.7-2.2.el5.centos  centos5_updates 
   346 k

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install      0 Package(s)
Update       5 Package(s)
Remove       0 Package(s)

Total download size: 4.8 M

My questions:

-Do I get trouble downloading CentOS4 and CentoS 5 updates with reposync 
  and pushing them in my satellite server?
-Why doesn't spacewalk show me the updates above and only the bind* 
updates and not the oother updates?
-If I want to install packages on clients (normal CentOS repo - base and 
extra repo) do I have to make a special channel for those repo's too? 
And do I have to configure the clients to use that extra channel too or 
can I use 1 channel for CentOS 5 clients? (base, extras and updates)
-Did someone manage to use CentOS 4 client on the spacewalk server and 
use CentOS 4 and 5 clients on the server?

Sorry for all my questions , I am trying to figuring this beautiful tool :)

Thanks in advance.

Kind regards,

Michiel



-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 506 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/attachments/20080716/e6ac8360/attachment.sig>