[Spacewalk-list] Firewall requires internal Mirroring EPEL and spacewalk repos

[Paul Robert Marino]

Well the important thing if you want to register existing clients is to
install the packages in the spacewalk client repo,  EPEL is not required
for this.

after you do that you just need to run rhnreg_ks with the activation key
for the appropriate base channel and the server url

If you dont intend to run osad you will need to run rhnsd instead which
does check ins with the spacewalk server at regular intervals. The big
difference betwean the two is osad keeps an active encrypted connection to
a jabber instance running on the spacewalk server so they can communicate
in real time, and rhnsd runs rhn_check every few minutes to check if any
thing needs to be executed via the XML RPC API via https.

As far as what url to use for mirroring EPEL just look at a box that
already has EPEL configured in yum and copy url in the mirrorlist and or
baseurl fields from /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo.



On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Boyd, Robert
<Robert.Boyd at peoplefluent.com>wrote:

> I see your point – I’m just not sure how this actually will work.   I’m
> still learning how things tie together.   If I want to  have Spacewalk
> mirror EPEL and Spacewalk Client, what are the URLs I would use to create
> repositories in Spacewalk?   And then what does the yum repo link look like
> to be able to install the client software on a new client?   Surely someone
> has had to do this before for an environment where the clients aren’t
> allowed to face the Internet directly.****
>
> ** **
>
> Or I suppose I could create a sub-directory under http://spacewalkhost/pub
> with the specific rpms linked into it and pull them down that way.   What
> I’m looking for is the most reasonable way to make it work with the least
> amount of ongoing maintenance required to keep it up to date.****
>
> ** **
>
> Thanks,****
>
> Robert****
>
> ** **
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> *From:* spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:
> spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] *On Behalf Of *Paul Robert Marino
> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 21, 2012 7:36 PM
> *To:* spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> *Subject:* Re: [Spacewalk-list] Firewall requires internal Mirroring EPEL
> and spacewalk repos****
>
> ** **
>
> Keep in mind as long as you don't use osad its all https so I don't see
> the point.****
>
> On Aug 21, 2012 7:29 PM, "Paul Robert Marino" <prmarino1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> ****
>
> Well yea but why not just have spacewalk directly mirror epel and cut out
> the middle man****
>
> On Aug 21, 2012 7:01 PM, "Boyd, Robert" <Robert.Boyd at peoplefluent.com>
> wrote:****
>
> It appears that due to firewalling and such I’ll need to build an internal
> yum repo mirror of EPEL and spacewalk repos.   I have mrepo running on my
> spacewalk master server.   Can I easily tell mrepo to mirror those 2 so I
> can serve them internally from there?****
>
>  ****
>
> And, question #2 – if I have spacewalk proxy servers running, can I use
> them as repo mirrors too with what’s already installed on them, or will I
> need to install mrepo or figure out using createrepo to do that?****
>
>  ****
>
> Thanks for any tips you might think of for doing this.****
>
>
> *Robert Boyd*
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