[Spacewalk-list] RHEL support and Ubuntu Support

[Mark Watts]

On 13/12/2011 15:49, Jeff Bjorklund wrote:
>
> Could someone please explain to me why Spacewalk (a RH product) 
> doesn't allow patching of RHEL systems? I would have assumed that this 
> was a licensing thing, but Novell's SuSE Manager (which is even based 
> on Spacewalk!) supports RHEL.
>
> I see in the "Registering Clients" wiki that you can add RHEL systems 
> to Spacewalk, but that "it will override some of the original base 
> packages and you may well be invalidating your support agreement with 
> Red Hat." I'm hesitant to even attempt this.
>
> If I have an RHN login, why can't I add the repos directly from RH? 
> Does it really need  to cost $13k/yr to mirror a RHEL repo remotely?
>
> Also, I see that there is "limited support" for Debian systems. Where 
> is this in the development stage? I read that Simon released a 
> Apt-Spacewalk package, is this stable yet? And does it work on Ubuntu, 
> or just Debian?
>

If you want a supported product for RHEL, use RHN Satellite.

Mark.
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