[Spacewalk-list] Question about yum repos after spacewalk client setup

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 10:48:43AM -0400, visinix the great wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
> I am at work moving my hosts over to using spacewalk to pick up updates,
> and use for their software repositories. My question is how exactly does
> the yum rhn plugin work?
> 
> 1.) Does the yum rhn plugin dissallow the server from using the default
> repo's found in /etc/yum.repos.d?

No, the repos/channels provided by Spacewalk via yum-rhn-plugin are
added to those specified locally on the client.

> 2.) I assume, but haven't tested yet, that I could always install from a
> repo if I specify it with yum --enable=foo, is this correct?

Yes.

> 3.) How do you handle default repos, do you remove the files? Do you change
> them to enabled=0?

Either will work.

> I'm working on using spacewalk to deploy systems via kickstart, and want to
> remove the ability to update the OS / packages further than my current
> spacewalk server deployment.

If there is a root on that machine, they can always run rpm locally.

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