[Spacewalk-list] pushing to client, not: createrepo?

m.roth2006 at rcn.com m.roth2006 at rcn.com
Fri Mar 27 20:24:56 UTC 2009


Jan,

>Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:11:34 +0100
>From: Jan Pazdziora <jpazdziora at redhat.com>  
>On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 03:59:12PM -0400, m.roth2006 at rcn.com wrote:
>> Oh, yes, installed on the client, all done manually. The /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo was manually edited to point to my spacewalk server. As I said a week or so ago, I successfully registered the client, and the server knows what's on it.
>
>To point to your Spacewalk server, you are not supposed to edit
>/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo -- you are supposed to edit
>/etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date. If you are messing with yum.repos.d,
>you deviate from the recommended way of using Spacewalk server
>and related client tools.

Ok, so the yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo on the client should *not* point to my spacewalk server, but to the real one? And this will be overridden by the up2date configuration file?
>
>Important request: Could you please fix / change your MUA (the program
>you use to read and send emails) so that it puts in proper In-Reply-To
>headers to your emails? It will help people to avoid responding to you
>twice since your threads would be properly shown in our MUAs. Thank
>you.
>
I can't, unfortunately. From work, I'm using my own business email, since I had trouble trying to register from my work account (I think there was a spam-filtering issue), and the idiot webmail that I'm forced to use gives me *very* limited control. Sorry.

      mark




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