[Spacewalk-list] reposync RHEL repositories on Centos Spacewalk

[Shao Ming]

I am trying to avoid that. I hope to hv all reposync, be it RHEL Centos
Fedora, to be done on the same Spacewalk box. I'm sure that is possible but
I can't seem to locate the info in this list...

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Wojtak, Greg
<GregWojtak at quickenloans.com>wrote:

> 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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