[Spacewalk-list] Installing spacewalk on RHEL 6.3

[Boyd, Robert]

I see your point.  

This is what's on the web page.  

>When using RHEL 6, make sure you are subscribed to following RHN channel: 
>
>*Red Hat Optional Server 6

At first I thought I had already done this.   The statement doesn't give any instruction on how to make sure.  I knew I was already subscribed to RHEL6 updates and thought I had subscribed to everything.   But I hadn't and didn't realize how to "make sure."  I suggest adding a sentence or 2 that spells it out for those of us who might be weaker with our yum-fu.  And I like cookbook instructions to be "complete" and spell out things like this.   Make it so everyone knows exactly how to do it.

I suggest the additional text might look like this:

In order to see if you are subscribed enter this command:  
Yum repolist | grep rhel-6-server-optional-rpms  

If you see a line like this you are all set:  
rhel-6-server-optional-rpms Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Server - Optional  5,154

If not, you will want to subscribe by entering this command:
yum-config-manager --enable rhel-6-server-optional-rpms


-----Original Message-----
From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Milan Zazrivec
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 11:29 AM
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Installing spacewalk on RHEL 6.3

On Wednesday 01 August 2012 17:20:40 Boyd, Robert wrote:
> I am rebuilding my spacewalk environment on a new server running RHEL 6.3. 
>   My previous efforts were on RHEL 5.8.   I discovered at the point that I
> went to do "yum install spacewalk-postgresql"  that there was a problem of
> some kind with my yum configuration.   After looking at various things I
> found that this fixed the problem:
> 
> yum-config-manager --enable rhel-6-server-optional-rpms
> 
> It might be useful is someone could add a note about this  to the Wiki 
> under the RHEL6 notes about jpackage.

The following page

    https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToInstall

already mentions you need to do that for RHEL-6 installations.

-MZ

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