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

[Colin Coe]

EPEL RPMs will not overwrite or conflict with RHEL packages.  I can't
speak for RPMForge.

Nothing in the Spacewalk/RHN Satellite logic prevents packages in a
child channel overwriting or replacing packages in the base channel.
For example, the Fastrak channel can do this.

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On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Jet Wilda <Jet.Wilda at fadv.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>
>                 Please excuse my ignorance but I still do not understand
> something.  I get how to populate the channels in the Spacewalk server.
> What I do not understand is how you prevent packages from EPEL or RpmForge
> from overwriting base OS packages on the workstation that pulls its updates
> (yum update) from the Spacewalk server.  Does the fact that they are child
> channels automatically make it so they won’t step on the top base channel?
>  Thanks again for answering my questions and being so patient with me as I
> try to understand.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> ~Jet
>
>
>
> From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Marco Giunta
> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 4:08 AM
>
>
>
> 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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