[Spacewalk-list] Installing spacewalk on RHEL 6.3

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 12:13:57PM -0400, Boyd, Robert wrote:
> 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

I have now reverted that wiki change -- the yum-config-manager will
not work for machines registered to RHN, for example. We really should
not try to cover all the RHEL administration steps there are --
there's RHEL documentation for that.

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Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat