[Spacewalk-list] Manually accessing a channel using yum

[Lopez, Abel]

This would be handy to have. Like with the cobbler bare-metal installs, I
can go to [SPACEWALK-SERVER]/ks/blah/ and it works.
It would be great to have a similar /yum/ interface. It would save on
duplicate effort, like, I've already mirrored CentOS Updates to my
spacewalk server, why do I need 'yet another' mirror to be able to use
those packages on systems that aren't registered in spacewalk. Even
helpful on kickstart server, using the 'repo' option.

On 6/16/11 5:42 AM, "Tom Brown" <tom at ng23.net> wrote:

>On 16 June 2011 13:26, Jan Pazdziora <jpazdziora at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 01:13:02PM +0100, Tom Brown wrote:
>>> > 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.
>>>
>>> OK thanks for the info - However, can i ask where the repo URL for a
>>> spacewalk kickstarted host come from? If from a spaewalk generated
>>
>> They are handlers defined in Apache's conf files.
>>
>>> kickstart i can see a repo presented to anaconda at install time,
>>> surely that should be accesible from else where?
>>
>> Not really -- the repo is presented on the fly, merging content from
>> /var/cache/rhn/repodata, /var/satellite/rhn, and
>> /var/satellite/redhat. It's not stored in the repo "tree" anywhere.
>
>generated on the fly by hitting a URL ? If so then cant i hit that URL
>from _any_ box?
>
>Fundamentally i'm trying to hit channels that are managed by spacewalk
>from machines that dont have spacewalk managed kickstarts, being pure
>cobbler instead.
>
>thanks
>
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