[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk Client Installation

[Michael Mraka]

Kobus Bensch wrote:
% Andy Speagle 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.

IMHO this was a different issue - you can't register into spacewalk
unless you have client packages which are in spacewalk channel which are
inaccessible without registration... an instance of classical chicken-egg
problem :).

% >Andy Speagle
...
% 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

Bootstrap.sh is generated dynamicaly - go to: Admin -> Spacewalk Configuration
-> Bootstrap Script.

Regards,

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Michael Mráka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat