[Spacewalk-list] Custom repos / custom channels

[Blake Dunlap]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 15:42, Christopher J Petrolino <cpetrolino at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> The list has hit it out of the park so far with helping me get an
> understanding on spacewalk no I humbly have another question/issue
> that I can't quite get my head wrapped around. I will use rpmforge as
> an example. If I want to get a local copy of rpmforge setup on my
> spacewalk server 'the end goal being that my prod network can't get to
> the internet beyond the box that will have spacewalk on it' what is
> the 'correct/recommended way of doing it?'
> Do I understand the documentation correctly to state that I should
> create the custom channel, then create a custom repo with the yum url,
> link that repo to the channel and then sync the channel or am I
> totally missing something here?
>
> thanks,
>
> CJP
>
>
The way I ended up doing it was using a seperate yum config pointing to
another area, and using yum based reposync. This gives the ability to
control what packages you take, which can be quite helpful in the case of
some repositories.

-Blake
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