[Spacewalk-list] question about new spacewalk 0.7 setup

[Michael Mraka]

Michiel van Es wrote:
>> In Spacewalk 0.7 you can use new tool spacewalk-repo-sync instead of
>> reposync + rhnpush:
>>
>> spacewalk-repo-sync -c centos5 --url http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/ --type=yum --label centos5
>
> That would directly upload the package (ala rhnpush) or would it first  
> download and then upload the packages? (old spacewalk had 2 versions of  
> the rpm's: 1 for reposync and 1 for rhnpush).

It downloads rpm to the cache (/under /var/cache/rhn) and then move to
right place in /var/satellite and update/insert metadata to the database.
So the result is only one copy of an rpm in the filesystem.


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Michael Mráka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat