[Spacewalk-list] spacewalk and mrepo

[Wojtak, Greg]

I *just* got it all put together within the past week, so I haven’t automated anything yet.  The working theory is that I can schedule mrepo pulls of all the repositories I need, then just have another cron job to push everything up there nightly.  Mrepo even sends e-mails of any new packages it pulls down.

The downside to this approach is that I need double the disk space – one place to hold the packages I pull down from mrepo, and then the filesystem that contains /var/satellite.  So far, it’s not an issue, but I could see it getting there.

From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Eric
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 3:48 PM
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] spacewalk and mrepo

Greg,

Does that work well? Is it easy to automate/script the mrepo ->rhnpush  process?
Are you administering RHEL boxes with Spacewalk then?

TIA,
-Eric

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From: "Wojtak, Greg" <GregWojtak at quickenloans.com>
To: "spacewalk-list at redhat.com" <spacewalk-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 2:24:48 PM
Subject: RE: [Spacewalk-list] spacewalk and mrepo
I am using mrepo to download the packages, then push them into spacewalk separately.  I don’t believe there is any all-in-one solution to sync spacewalk from rhn, short of buying a satellite entitlement.  I use mrepo to pull packages down, then rhnpush to get them into spacewalk.

From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Eric
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 3:19 PM
To: mail at marcus-moeller.de; spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] spacewalk and mrepo

Marcus,

Thanks for the info. I forgot to mention that I have mrepo working, but I was just wondering
if the combination of mrepo and spacewalk would give me the basic functionality of  downloading packages from RHN and pushing them to RHEL boxes.

TIA,

-Eric

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From: Marcus Moeller <mail at marcus-moeller.de>
To: Eric <linux_4_u at yahoo.com>; spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 2:11:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] spacewalk and mrepo

Dear Eric,

> I was wondering if anyone had Spacewalk and mrepo working together to
> manage/update RHEL Systems?
> Unfortunately, RHN Satellite is not within our budget.
>
> I am thinking of implementing this combination since we have many RHEL
> systems which do not have "Internet" access.
>
> Do you have any suggestions or caveats with regards to this type of setup?

You will find some examples on the mrepo page. Brandon has also
written a good tutorial, which can be found here:

http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/mrepo_configuration.html

Best Regards
Marcus


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