[Spacewalk-list] how do the files in /etc/yum.repos.d/ relate when using spacewalk?

[Marco Giunta]

On -28163-01--10 20:59, Jet Wilda wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>                 So then your workstations have the spacewalk server 
> and your local yum repository setup to get RPMs from.  Am I 
> understanding that correctly?
>

No, my workstations have only spacewalk repository by rhnplugin

>   Or how do the work stations get something from say EPEL that isn't 
> setup via it's activation key channels?
>

In my spacewalk server I have a channel for every different repository: 
Centos base, updates, extras, Epel, Rpmforge, Karan , Spacewalk-client 
and another with my personal rpms. Every night, a cron script, sync all 
repositories from external source with 'reposync -l bla bla bla ' ('-l' 
flag = enable yum plugin support) to a local directories on my spacewalk 
server; in this way I manage 'priority plugin'. Then, same script, sync 
my local mirrors with spacewalk channels (spacewalk-repo-sync bla bla bla)

My activation keys have as base channel, CentOS Base and as child 
channels, all other channels. So, with 'yum install bla bla' I can 
install a rpm belong to Epel, from my spacewalk server ...

   Marco


> Thanks,
>
> ~Jet
>
> *From:* spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] *On Behalf Of *Marco Giunta
> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 22, 2010 2:41 AM
>
> Hi,
> workstations are connected to spacewalk server repository by 
> 'rhnplugin'; I think you can enable or disable a channel modifing 
> '/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/rhnplugin.conf':
>
> /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/rhnplugin.conf
>
> [main]
> enabled = 1
> gpgcheck = 1
>
> # You can specify options per channel, e.g.:
> #
> #[rhel-i386-server-5]
> #enabled = 1
> #
> #[some-unsigned-custom-channel]
> #gpgcheck = 0
>
> But you cannot manage priority, AFAIK. I manage it in this way:
>
> - first, I sync external repositories (centos update, extras, 
> rpmforge, epel and karan) with 'reposync -l bla bla bla ' ('-l' flag = 
> enable yum plugin support) to a local directories on my spacewalk server
> -then  I sync my local mirrors with spacewalk channels 
> (spacewalk-repo-sync bla bla bla)
>
>   Marco
>
>
>
> On -28163-01--10 20:59, Jet Wilda wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>                 I'm trying to understand the relationship of the files 
> in /etc/yum.repos.d/*.rep once a system is configured to sync against 
> the spacewalk server.  Are those files not used at all once the system 
> is using spacewalk?  If not is there a place that you can configure 
> the repo settings like priority, enabled, etc?
>
> Thanks,
>
> ~Jet
>
>
>
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