[Spacewalk-list] Manually accessing a channel using yum

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 01:35:21PM +0100, Tom Brown wrote:
> Does anyone know if i can configure a channel as a repo? I'd like to
> present a couple of channels that are in spacewalk to systems that
> cant for one reason or another be registered in spacewalk but could do
> with using the packages in a repo
> 
> https://<Spacewalk
> URL>/XMLRPC/GET-REQ/centos-5-x86_64-01122010/repodata/repomd.xml
> HTTP/1.1" 200 871
> 
> Thats a client getting some repo data from the server - but is it
> possible to get at it in any other way?

Not really.

Being able to generate "proper" yum repos from Spacewalk channels is
a natural RFE thou, so if you are an analyst or developer with some
spare time, specs or patches are welcome.

-- 
Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat