[Spacewalk-list] Proxy installation

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 06:24:51PM +0200, Pierre Casenove wrote:
> Hello List,
> I have a working SPacewalk server that manage my clients and I want to
> install a spacewalk proxy to manage a specific part of the network.
> Reading https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToInstallProxy I
> have a doubt:
> Do I have to configure the server to point Spacewalk public
> repositories or do I have to register the server to my spacewalk
> server, and then install the proxy from the spacewalk server?
> 
> I think that there are not really any differences but I just want to be sure.

You have to register the machine which will run the Spacewalk Proxy to
the Spacewalk server but you don't need to have the Spacewalk Proxy
bits synced in the Spacewalk server's channel -- you can safely
install from yum repos.

-- 
Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat