[Spacewalk-list] rpmforge

[Michiel van Es]

Hi,

Is it not a good idea to put rpmforge in a seperate channel and give the
clients the yum-priorities tool and let them use the rpmforge as a
higher pririty then CentOS-Base or visa versa?

Kind regards,

Michiel

Santi Saez wrote:
> El 4/2/09 14:19, Michiel van Es escribió:
> 
>> Did someone already made the rpmforge repo in his/hers spacewalk
>> environment?
>>
>> We have a lot of nodes using rpmforge.
>>
>> Can I simply synch the repo and push them in a seperate repo on my
>> spacewalk server?
>> Then I register the nodes to my spacewalk server/ freshly made rpmforge
>> repo?
> 
> Some users has said in this list that are using "rpmforge" as a child 
> channel, if you use a lot of packages from this repo it would be a good 
> idea.
> 
> In my case, I can't use rpmforge channel directly because of in this 
> repo are packages that are in CentOS "base" channel; for example rsync 
> package.
> 
> We have a custom child channel for CentOS and we put some packages from 
> rpmforge. We use near about 4-5 packages from this repo, so it's a good 
> way to prevent upgrading base packages with rpmforge's RPMs.
> 
> Regards,
> 

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