[Spacewalk-list] Register Suse Systems

[trumpjk at gmail.com]

On , Alan Pittman <Alan.Pittman at publix.com> wrote:








> Here's how I manage opensuse, hopefully this helps. This is an answer to  
> similar question a while back.



> Hi Chuck,

> I use Spacewalk to manage a couple of opensuse 12.1 machines.



> Here's what I've got setup, using 32bit as the example:

> Parent Channel:



> Channel Name: opensuse12.1-i586

> Channel Label: opensuse12.1-32bit

> Parent Channel: (none)

> Yum Repository Checksum Type: sha1

> Architecture: IA-32



> Update channel (note: I have two child channels, just showing the update  
> channel here):



> Channel Name: opensuse12.1-i586-updates

> Channel Label: opensuse12.1-32bit-updates

> Parent Channel: opensuse12.1-i586

> Yum Repository Checksum Type: sha1

> Architecture: IA-32

> Summary: opensuse12.1 32bit update channel



> Repo for the update channel:



> Repo label: opensuse12.1-32bit-updates-repo

> Repo URL:
> http://download.opensuse.org/update/12.1/



> To sync the channel, I created a script that I schedule via cron:

> [root at taeps001 ~]# cat /usr/local/bin/sync-opensuse12-32.sh

> #!/bin/bash

> /usr/bin/spacewalk-repo-sync --channel opensuse12.1-32bit-updates --type  
> yum



> When the sync runs, I get a log of messages that look like this:



> Package arch x86_64 incompatible with channel opensuse12.1-32bit-updates



> You need not worry about them, opensuse places both i586 and x86_64 rpms  
> in the same remote repository. Spacewalk will receive them, but since I'm  
> are trying to sync a 32 bit channel (ia-32), the x86_64 packages just  
> exist in "limbo".
> Going to "Manage Software Packages" and in the Channel field,  
> select "packages with no channels", the x86_64 packages will display.




> If you create an opensuse x86_64 channel and run a sync, these "limbo"  
> packages get pushed into the x86_64 channel. At least, that what it  
> appears to do.



> On the opensuse machine, I just followed these procedures:
> https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/RegisteringClients.

> The machines don't have internet access, so I manually downloaded the  
> spacewalk-client packages and installed them.

> The opensuse client packages can be found here:  
> baseurl=http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/1.7/openSUSE_12.1/



> Hope this helps.



> Alan





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> Subject: [Spacewalk-list] Register Suse Systems



> Can someone point me to instructions on how to configure a suse system to  
> use spacewalk?






Thanks Alan,
How do you set the suse system to use spacewalk for update? I was able to  
get the suse system to register with spacewalk server. but if I bring up  
yast it complains about update repo not being defined?
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