[Spacewalk-list] reposync RHEL repositories on Centos Spacewalk

[Wojtak, Greg]

Here's what I did:

On my RHEL servers (with valid rhn subscriptions), I installed and ran reposync for the appropriate RHN repositories I needed for my environment.  I then rhnpush'ed those - for RHEL 5 it was a total of 5353 packages and for x86_64 it was 7000+.  I don't have any better idea how to manage those, and I am still trying to figure out how I am going to manage them going forward.  But at least I have a consistent set... for now.

-----Original Message-----
From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Alexandros Soumplis
Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 5:28 AM
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] reposync RHEL repositories on Centos Spacewalk

Hi!

Ok, i understand. Well I do not use any RHEL clients on my spacewalk
infrastructure to be more helpful but I am more than convinced that you
need to have a valid rhn subscription and then configure yum appropriately
to connect to rhn repos as well. However it would be better if someone
else on the list with rhel client can shred more light :-)



> Hi Soumplis,
>
> thanks for the quick reply. I think I was not too clear in my earlier
> e-mail. I apologise.
>
> Currently, I have a mix of Centos and RHEL boxes. I have managed to use
> reposync to download packages for Centos and rhnpush to Spacewalk. My
> Spacewalk is installed on a Centos.
>
> What I am having problem is wondering how to reposync with RHEL packages?
> Do
> I create a rhel repo at /etc/yum.repos.d/? Do I need a rhn subscription
> account? I'm lost on this part.
>
> thanks
> Shao Ming
>
>
> 2009/6/24 Alexandros Soumplis <soumplis at ekt.gr>
>
>> I think you make a mistake. As long as your clients are CentOS boxes
>> then
>> you need to use reposync on your spacewalk server to download CentOS
>> packages from a CentOS repository. Reposync uses your existing yum
>> configuration and repositories. After you've downloaded the packages you
>> can use rhnpush to push those packages into spacewalk repository. There
>> are lots of information on the wiki and on this list archives.
>>
>>
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > just started on spacewalk and need some answers/helps.
>> >
>> > I have manged to to create Software channels for my Centos 5.x
>> clients. I
>> > also have a few RHEL boxes and hope to point them to spcewalk also.
>> Can
>> > someone explain how I can use the reposync to download packages from
>> rhn
>> > and
>> > push them to spacewalk?
>> > I do not have any 'rhel' repoid in my Centos install.
>> >
>> > thanks
>> > Shao Ming
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