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

[Mike McCune]

Covil, K (Kim) wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I think it would be really useful if Spacewalk could refer to external 
> repositories rather than have to maintain a copy of all RPMs itself. It 
> could retrieve repository headers in the same way yum does, and when you 
> select to install a package on a subscribed system, the system could be 
> given the external repository URL to download from. A further 
> enhancement to this would allow an internal web proxy url to be 
> specified to allow squid or such like to provide local caching for a 
> network. This would move Spacewalk more to managing systems and what 
> packages they have installed than managing the actual packages 
> themselves. It would also dramatically cut down the local storage 
> requirements.
>  

To put it in Spacewalk terms:

Create a channel that gets its content from somewhere else.  Any 
requests for content from that channel get proxied to the real source.

This is a good idea, something we have discussed internally but haven't 
gone anywhere with.

Mike
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