[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk Errata and CentOS Announce

[Jeremy Maes]

p 2/10/2012 14:22, Wolfgang Neudorfer schreef:
> Hi folks,
>
> I am currently testing Spacewalk 1.7 (postgresql) and I'm quite happy with it. One of the last things missing for me is filling the Errata tab with content. I found the script from David Nutter [1] that should exactly do that.
>
> If I understand the script correctly, it needs a local CentOS mirror and cannot work with Spacewalk channels. Therefore, I need to clone the CentOS updates repo with mrepo and then sync it to a Spacewalk channel what results in using twice the disk space, right?
To prevent using twice the disk space you can hardlink the different 
copies of the same file. RedHat (also in CentOS repos) provides an rpm 
called "hardlink" that does just that: compare the content of the 
folders you list, and hardlink any occurrences of the same file 
together. That way you can save quite a bit of space.

I and a few other people on this list use this without any problems.

Regards,
Jeremy

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