[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk and mrepo integration

[Deependra Singh Shekhawat]

On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Deependra Singh Shekhawat <
deepsa at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

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> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I am the author of a tool called mrepo/rhnget, which basically automates
>> the download of RPMs from Red Hat Network channels and offers them as
>> repositories. I came across some companies using a combined
>> mrepo/Spacewalk setup, and thanks to Google I found some references to this
>> list.
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>> Since I learned that feeding a repository to Spacewalk is not that easy
>> and requires some magic, I was wondering whether it would be nice to have
>> some better integration of mrepo with Spacewalk, so the nightly cron job
>> running mrepo would automatically feed new packages into Spacewalk channels.
>>
>> Now before we can implement such integration, it is essential that we
>> understand how people are using mrepo and Spacewalk together in the field
>> and what other functionality is required for an integration as complete as
>> possible (eg. errata info, group info, filtering based on metadata, ...)
>>
>> The more information we can collect regarding this, the better.
>>
>> We recently moved mrepo development to Github, and I opened an issue at
>> Github to track information regarding Spacewalk integration at:
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>>    https://github.com/dagwieers/**mrepo/issues/26<https://github.com/dagwieers/mrepo/issues/26>
>>
>> If you are using mrepo and Spacewalk in your environment and you have some
>> feedback, ideas or code to share, please do so on the Github forum.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> --
>> -- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/
>> -- dagit linux solutions, info at dagit.net, http://dagit.net/
>>
>> [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]
>>
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> Thanks Dag, would like to share that we are using mrepo/spacewalk at our
> end in SIT and Production environments. It works really great for us so far.
> Would like to know how we can configure mrepo installed on a RHEL5 box to
> sync with Novell Customer center and pull updates for SLES 11 SP1.
>
> Thanks once again, for the great mrepo tool :)
>
> Regards,
> Deependra
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>
Nevermind Dag, I figured this last night and now I can't wait to push the
updates to SLES clients.
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