[Spacewalk-list] Managing the size on disk of software channels

[Jon Miller]

When I have uploaded the same packages into a separate channel, the tool
reported that the package was already loaded but you can still see the
package as available from the UI. So no, you will not be wasting disk space
with duplicates.

-- Jon Miller


On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Paul Brunck
<Paul.Brunck at healthlanguage.com>wrote:

> In order to use kickstart it is recommended that you use a child channel
> that has tools for kickstart.  Suppose you put the RPMs from an install dvd
> in a repository under Manage Repositories and the spacewalk client tools
> under a 2nd repository.  Then in channels you make a parent channel that
> includes the rpms from the dvd and a child channel that includes the rpms
> from both the dvd and the Spacewalk client tools.  Does this mean that you
> will end up with 2 copies of every rpm under /var/satellite/redhat from the
> install dvd and thereby waste 3-4GB of space?
>
> Paul Brunck
> Health Language, Inc.
> System Administrator
>
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