[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk Client Installation

[Kobus Bensch]

Hi

Speagle, Andy wrote:
>> % Or... do I have to keep doing a 'yum localinstall rhn-client-tools' to %
>> find out what dependencies I'm missing and grab them manually one at a %
>> time? What a pain in the neck.  I started doing this then figured it %
>> might be an exercise of futility on my part.  It might be easier to %
>> mirror the repositories locally so I don't have to play the dependency %
>> game... but that would defeat one of the reasons I wanted to use %
>> spacewalk in the first place.
>>
>> As for initial client package installation you can mirror client repo from
>> http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/ under your spacewalk:/var/www/html/pub
>> which is publicly accessible via http://spacewalk/pub.
>> And then create /etc/yum.repos.d/spacewalk-client-pub.repo on client
>>
>> [spacewalk-client-pub]
>> name=Spacewalk Client Tools
>> baseurl=http://spacewalk/pub/client/
>> gpgkey=http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/RPM-GPG-KEY-spacewalk-2010
>> enabled=1
>> gpgcheck=1
>>     
>
> This sounds like something for which the "bootstrap" script was designed.  On your Spacewalk server, take a look at this in:
>
> /var/www/html/pub/bootstrap/bootstrap.sh (I believe this is where it is by default).
>
> This script helps to quickly get existing systems registered and configured to use your Spacewalk server.  It requires relatively minimal customization for your environment.
>
> Andy Speagle
> System & Storage Administrator
> UCATS - Wichita State University
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I am following this email trail and looked to see what the bootstrap.sh 
file contain. On a new SW 1.2 server this file does not exist.
It contains these files
client_config_update.py  client_config_update.pyc  client_config_update.pyo

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