[Spacewalk-list] Server profile re-registration problem

[Paul Robert Marino]

Generally how you have been doing this is an odd way of doing it.
Having multiple kickstart profiles based on the various builds you
want to do with individual sets of activation keys is considered to be
the best practice.
keep in mind you can have more than 1 activation key in a single
kickstart profile.
combine that with package profiles and you can easily keep you base
install for all of the kickstarts as well as shared components between
similar kickstarts consistent.



On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Nathan Butcher <nbutcher at dtst.com.au> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to set up a kickstart file which, during the post install phase, determines what extra software channels and configuration channels it wants to join.
>
> (For example, I am using RHEL 5, and for some boxes I want to add vmware tools, or oracle packages, or physical hardware monitoring packages, etc.etc. Each set of software has it's own repository and subchannel)
>
> I have an initial activation key for the base install. This initial registration to spacewalk doesn't add any software channels or configuration channels. In the post install phase I'm currently re-registering with a new activation key in order to enable extra software and configuration channels (depending on what sort of host I want). This ends up creating an extra profile on spacewalk for the system.
> This is less than ideal because I end up with lots of duplicate profiles which I then have to clean up later on (essentially removing the "blank" initial install profile). Rather, I'd like to manipulate the current registered profile and just add new channels to it depending on how I'd like it.
>
> Is there a way to do this? Or am I better off having multiple profiles, multiple activation keys and getting the activation key registration right the first time?
>
> Ideally if there was some way to add software and configuration channels to the already registered profile in the post install phase in the kickstart, that would be ideal.
>
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