[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk Client Installation

[Michael Gliwinski]

On Wednesday 12 Jan 2011 14:13:24 John Hodrien wrote:
> I may be being dim here, but given you can access child channels when you
> kickstart, why can't you get the spacewalk client packages from there?
> 
> So in my kickstart I have a repo line like this:
> 
> repo --name=centos-5.5-64bit-spacewalk-client
> --baseurl=http://swserver.mydomain/ks/dist/child/centos-5.5-64bit-spacewal
> k-client/centos-5.5-64bit
> 
> Can't I just use that as the local yum repo before registration?

Indeed, this is a good point.  I was wondering about that too.  Are there any 
limitations/drawbacks why this would not be appropriate?

I'm thinking at least it should be possible for Spacwalk to generate a 
bootstrap script (maybe in Python to use Yum directly) for completely new 
clients which gets what it needs from Spacewalk server.  Thoughts?


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