[Spacewalk-list] Assigning packages to a group

[Daniel Wittenberg]

There are a couple web gui's for puppet as well, I've been playing around with them but don't have the URL's handy at the moment, but that might work too ?

Dan

On May 21, 2010, at 11:27 AM, Edward Simmonds wrote:

> Mike Hanby wrote:
>> I'm enjoying the discussion so far.
>> We handle this type of scenario using Puppet. The machines get the packages and updates from Spacewalk with Puppet telling them which packages to get and whether or not they should always be at the latest version.
>> Perhaps this capability could be part of the Puppet entry in:
>> https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/TheRoadmap#FutureIdeas
> 
> We've considered this, and I just started figuring out how to do this with Puppet a few minutes before I saw your response.  I was hoping to do this with Spacewalk because it will give us the ability to assign groups of machines to certain people and give them a nice GUI to do RPM management.  I'm sure we can hack something together with Puppet as well, but it won't have the visual advantages of Spacewalk for folks that aren't fond of the command line.
> 
> Do you have any tips or tricks for using Puppet to do this?
> 
> Best,
> 
> Ed
> 
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