[Spacewalk-list] Reducing disk space used by mrepo/spacewalk

[Boyd, Robert]

At https://github.com/dagwieers/mrepo/issues/26

Aron Parsons Said:

mrepo syncs RHN channels and other YUM repos to /var/satellite/mrepo
I call spacewalk-repo-sync with include and exclude filters to avoid bringing in packages I have no need for (e.g., java*ibm,Deployment_Guide-everyfreakinglanguageever). When mrepo gains the ability to include/exclude in 0.9.0, I will not need to have spacewalk-repo-sync do the filtering because the packages will never actually land on the disk.
I hardlink between /var/satellite/redhat and /var/satellite/mrepo to save space
I use the rhn-clone-errata.py<http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=spacewalk.git;a=tree;f=scripts/clone-errata;hb=HEAD> script that lives in the Spacewalk git repo
Kickstart trees (distributions) are manually added in Spacewalk and point at the ISOs that mrepo mounts automatically


I'm wanting to find out how that works to hardlink between the /var/satellite/redhat and /var/satellite/mrepo directories?   Does it matter which direction the hardlinks are  set? How do you set up the spacewalk-repo-sync so that it doesn't get confused when it runs against the files that are already in the destination directories because of the links?  I'm asking because I'm setting up a brand new spacewalk server and trying to make it as lean as possible.

Also,  anybody have a guess about when mrepo 0.9.0 is likely to arrive?  And will it really have the filtering built in?

Thanks!

Robert Boyd
Senior Systems Engineer
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