[Spacewalk-list] RHEL support and Ubuntu Support

[Parsons, Aron]

The only thing Spacewalk doesn't allow you to do is to sync directly against RHN.  You can use mrepo (http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/mrepo/ or reposync) to mirror the channels you have entitlements to, then use spacewalk-repo-sync to pull those into Spacewalk.  It all works fine, it just requires a little more work than running 'satellite-sync' against RHN.

Regarding the warning about overriding packages, don't worry about it.  The Spacewalk client repos have updated packages for the RHN tools, which aren't going to invalidate any support contracts unless you're reporting an issue about connecting to RHN with the updated packages.

/aron

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Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:49:11 +0000
From: Jeff Bjorklund <jeff.bjorklund at peak10.com>
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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?

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