[Spacewalk-list] Can't register RHEL5 host with 'spacewalk default' key

[Snyder, Chris]

First, I do appreciate the help, and yes, I do realize that the page I referenced is an old, CentOS page.    But it's been the most clear set of instructions I've been able to find.    Prior to two weeks ago, I'd done Red Hat work for years and never once touched RHN or anything related to it (we simply buy our required number RH licenses for all our hosts, use one to actually register a single host with RHN, then slurp down the OS + updates via mrepo with that host and the do everything else via our local mrepo setup and yum - awesome), so channels, keys, etc are all very, very confusing with no frame of reference.

I have to admit I'm not finding the actual Spacewalk Wiki all that helpful.  So far most of my knowledge has come from the aforementioned (old) CentOS page, the RHN Satellite Reference Guide (v5.5), the SW ML archives, and various websites out there.   The wiki feels very scattered in the available data and the organization of that data.  But that could just be me.

It's been an uphill battle to say the least.  But I've made it this far, so I'll go upgrade and see what happens then.

Thank you for the help.
Chris.

-----Original Message-----
From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jan Pazdziora
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 11:21 AM
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Can't register RHEL5 host with 'spacewalk default' key

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 03:57:43PM +0000, Snyder, Chris wrote:
> 
> I have yet to find an explicit recipe for adding RHEL 5 channels to Spacewalk for PXE/Kickstart, so all my configuration has been built using lots of Googling and primarily this page: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/PackageManagement/Spacewalk.
> 

May I point out that this page is *not* a documentation provided by
the Spacewalk project. It describes Oracle XE version which is no
longer available for download and it does not correctly reflect the
state of the PostgreSQL database backend support.

I understand that the CentOS documentation pages are more colorful
than the Spacewalk wiki, however, the above page does not seem to have
been updated since it has been last copied from Spacewalk's wiki back
in 1.4 days.

The up-to-date installation instructions for Spacewalk are at

	https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToInstall

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

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