[Spacewalk-list] Kickstart and Proxy question

[Miroslav Suchý]

Jason Ball wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I run a worldwide network running a combination of RHEL, Centos and Core 
> 11 systems and have provisioned a centralised spacewalk server.   I am 
> now in the process of configuring a number of proxy servers at various 
> locations and I want the proxies to be used for all access from 

Just to be sure: You are setting up Spacewalk proxy, right? Not ordinary 
http proxy (squid).

> kickstarts through to package updates/installs.  I've been looking for 
> information on running kickstarts through a proxy and haven't found 
> anything so any pointers would be appreciated.

It should work automagicaly. Just replace name of Spacewalk server with 
name of Spacewalk proxy in all place in tftp record.

> I am currently trialling the following to get the kickstarts to work:
> 
> * Replicated the installation media to the proxy (under /var/www/html/pub).
> * Set the media url in the kickstart to the above media location.

Hm, I believe this should not be needed. But I did not made KS through 
proxy for some time...

> * I have found the default kickstart set the 'yum' repositories for the 
> kickstart to my spacewalk server.   A %pre script has been added to 
> change this to the required proxy server:
> 
>      current setting: repo --name=rhel5-x64-rpmforge 
> --baseurl=http://spacewalk.server/ks/dist/child/rhel5-x64-rpmforge/rhel5-x86_64-updated
> 
> 
> /usr/bin/sed -e 's/spacewalk.server/proxy.server/' < /tmp/ks.cfg > 
> /tmp/ks.cfg.lcbld01 /usr/bin/mv /tmp/ks.cfg.lcbld01 /tmp/ks.cfg

I believe that we rewriete all occurencies of spacewalk server hostname 
in ks.cfg to proxy hostname. But I could not find it anywhere in code.
So you may have truth.
I should set up some proxy and try it on my own.

> * Added a rule to the proxy squid.conf to forward requests for files 
> (/ks/...) to the spacewalk server as there didn't seem to be any rules 
> to cater for this.

And why should be?


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Miroslav Suchy
Red Hat Satellite Engineering