[Spacewalk-list] Fwd: Space walk for RHEL5

[rob morrien]

hello Miroslav Suchy,

One question:

i have 2 satellite systems with subscriptions to pic up the redhat
channels.

Does it mean that i can get the redhat software also in my spacewalk
systems?

regards rob







> On 04/23/2010 10:21 AM, Tore Lønøy wrote:
>> Correct me if I'm, but is it possible to use RHEL with Spacewalk? You
>> just have to sync the packages from RHN ?
>
> Yes, it is possible. There are only several "but":
>
> - you could not name your channel with rh prefix (and redhat IIRC)
> - if you want to sync packages directly from RHN you have to have
> subscription for RHN Satellite. And when you buy this subscription you
> probably will want to use directly RHN Satellite, which is more stable.
> But that certificate will definitely work in Spacewalk too.
>
>> In an mixed environment it would be nice to have one Spacewalk instance
>> for all CentOS and RHEL machines. As long as you have the correct number
>> of licenses for your systems there shouldn't be any legal issues.
>
> Yes. Correct. You can mix RHEL, CentOS, Fedora or whatever. You can do
> that in both Spacewalk and RHN Satellite.
>
> --
> Miroslav Suchy
> Red Hat Satellite Engineering
>
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