[Spacewalk-list] Need for a lightweight mirroring solution

[Michael DeHaan]

Miroslav Suchý wrote:
> Michael,
> what are you trying to do? I have no idea what you mean by mirroring 
> RHEL packages in context of Spacewalk.

Spacewalk is the upstream codebase for Satellite, ergo, anything we want 
to do for Satellite happens in Spacewalk first.
>
> Michael DeHaan wrote:
>> who have small-mid size environments that cannot use Satellite for 
>> various reasons.
> If they can not use Satellite/Spacewalk then why you speak about it here?

Pulp started because of Satellite and this community would be the most 
interested in mirroring tools.   This is also about the long-term 
architecture of Spacewalk, so it's relevant.

>
>> The problem with this is that Spacewalk/Satellite's yum_rhn_plugin 
>> can only be used to mirror packages that match the arch (and distro) 
>> of the requestor.  There is not a good solution for older RHEL or 
>> other arches.
> Ok, so we have somebody who use Spacewalk. Why somebody want to mirror 
> packages? If you want distribute load, you can have Spacewalk Proxy.
>
> Can you explain me on some use case scenario what is your goal?
>

Currently people who want to mirror packages must purchase Satellite, 
though this does not work well for folks who have a very small number of 
machines but still need to mirror packages.   This is a good place to 
brainstorm options.

Spacewalk Proxy fails because it is not a proxy for Red Hat Network, but 
a proxy for another Spacewalk.

Further, it does not solve the disconnected use problem.