[Spacewalk-list] install basic pkgs without going internet

[Mohit Vadhera]

a) What are other features  to use with it . As per my reading  features
are ( kickstart, hardware inventory, yum ) ? is there anything else i can
use with it ?

b) In my situation i 've to again need yum for basic client setup . why one
more yum is required . I need to get all machines in spacewalk it means
i've to install all 4 required pkgs on all machines using yum and it gives
dependencies issue . I want to make it easier. Any suggestion?

Thanks,



On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Jan Pazdziora <jpazdziora at redhat.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 03:23:11PM +0530, Mohit Vadhera wrote:
> >
> > Thanks, don't mind . In this case spacewalk is not helpful at all. Few
>
> Well, clearly Spacewalk cannot be helpful in that situation because
> you don't have the machines registered to the Spacewalk server. You
> are in the "getting it set up so that it works for future operations"
> stage. People who kickstart/provision new machines via Spacewalk don't
> hit the problem because they will be able to setup the infrastructure
> (installation necessary packages) as part of the provisioning.
>
> In the future, once you have your machines managed by Spacewalk, you
> will be able to achieve similar goal via WebUI or API, in one place
> (on the Spacewalk server), and have it automatically done on all your
> registered systems.
>
> > question please I've to come down and ask few basic question.
> >
> > 1)  How is better than yum ?
>
> It has WebUI and API for centralized management of dozens of thousands
> of systems. You does not.
>
> > 2) what other feature make it better to use. ( Invnetory )
>
> Better than ... ?
>
> > 3) Can you please give me a reason to convince my team mates to use it ?
>
> Well, the situation you are in (a need to do certain action on all of
> your machines) is clearly something that you can do with Spacewalk,
> and judging by your struggling with the initial setup task now, you
> don't really have any alternative solution available.
>
> --
> Jan Pazdziora
> Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat
>
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