[Spacewalk-list] spacewalk cobbler issue

[Kennedy, Ryan]

I am probably missing something here so chime in if I am. But, why not just have centrally managed /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-* files in the configuration channel and those pushed to the clients.  Add the spacewalk.repo file while you're at it.

I can see multiple pitfalls with using the sed one-liner to disable those repos anyway.  Simple? yes.  Clean and robust? No.

-----Original Message-----
From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of John Hodrien
Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 12:49 AM
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] spacewalk cobbler issue

On Thu, 25 Feb 2010, Jeremy Mueller wrote:

> We had the same problem with a proxy and the CentOS mirrors.  At the beginning of our %post section we put in this sed statement:
>
> sed -i 's/^\[\([^]]*\)\]/[\1]\nenabled=0/g' /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-*

I thought putting it in a post didn't work because the rhnreg happened first,
so any packages installed via the activation key caused problems at that
stage.

I also (still) think disabling them that way is just setting yourself up for
problems later.  Next time you upgrade centos-release, are you not setting
yourself up for another sed?  Or does rpmnew save you?

jh

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