[Spacewalk-list] Best Practices

[Philip Mather]

That occurred to me as well after I fluffed naming some CentOS channels the
first time around, my conclusion was a set of prepared scripts to
automatically build a number of commonly used channels, obvious choices
would be RHEL, CentOS, Fedora and spacewalk itself. Other candidates could
be http://rpmfusion.org/, VMWare.. any others?

It'd be nice if the scripts offered to do everything required like adding
crontab entries to update them and added errata scripts with some sort of
option system to select architectures, update schedule, download to local
system first or suck straight from remote etc. One problem might be causing
everyone to hit the same repositories at the same time, might need some
randomization.

Should this be a shell script or part of the HTTP GUI? If it's the first I
can program in Bash all day long, hell I can also program in Python but I
wouldn't exactly describe myself as a particularly big fan.
It'd give people somewhere to start and a common channel base. Shall I knock
together a page under something like
Features/CommonChannelConstructor/Proposal?

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> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 14:40:36 +0800
> From: Colin Coe <colin.coe at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Best Practices
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> I'd like to see a RHEL channel naming standard in Spacewalk.
>
> For RHEL content, we can't use the same channel names as Satellite
> server does.  This leads to the community having a wide array of names
> for RHEL channels.  This is problematic for scripts such as
> rhn-clone-errata where everyone effectively has their own copy as they
> need to modify it to match their channel names.  It's a real pity that
> this restriction is in place.
>
> CC
>
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 4:53 AM, Philip Mather <phil at philipmather.me.uk>
> wrote:
> > There isn't really, whilst fiddling around with the user documentation at
> > https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/UserDocs I did add a section
> called
> > "Best Practice Guides" but then renamed it later to "Core Guides" because
> > most of them were more rough "how-tos" really? I did tidy up the Managing
> > Fedora Systems page and intended to use it as a template for the
> CentOS/RHEL
> > pages.
> > The best guide I've found so far is...
> >
> > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/PackageManagement/Spacewalk
> >
> > ...simply because it's all in one long page and contains the nugget of
> > creating local repos first and then importing to Spacewalk from that
> rather
> > then sucking it straight from a remote location.
> > My progress on the user documentation slowed recently because I've been
> > pulled from the project at ${work} to deliver some other stuff, however
> very
> > shortly we have to deploy an entirely new data centre so I was going to
> > float Spacewalk in on the back of that and actually get some physical kit
> > resourced to it as well. Well I can dream anyway.
> > I also created...
> >
> >
> https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/Meta-WikiPage#User_Documentation_Requests
> >
> > ...to give a place for documentation requests.
> > I'll add the other links I've colated to the user documentation in a
> moment
> > but if you'd like anyone to do do a bit of editting/proof-reading or even
> > stuff like adding screenshots, diagrams or formatting just shout.
> >
> > Regards,
> > ?? Phil
> >
> >
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> >> Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 11:31:55 -0500
> >> From: Matthew Davis <matthew at familycampground.org>
> >> To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
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> >> I'm not sure if one exists for Spacewalk, but there may RHN Satellite
> >> best practices documents on the Red Hat site. ?At least that may be a
> >> starting point.
> >>
> >> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Hugo Doria <hugodoria at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Could someone point me to a documentation with spacewalk's best
> >> > practices? If it does not exists, who wants to help me to create one?
> >> >
> >> > -- Hugo Doria
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> > --
> > Regards,
> > ? Phil
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