[Spacewalk-list] Cobbler Packages - Why 2?

[Tom Brown]

On 12 Mar 2013, at 07:14, Jan Pazdziora <jpazdziora at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 11:05:45PM +0000, Tom Brown wrote:
>> Why are there 2 different cobbler packages in spacewalk - cobbler-2
>> and cobbler20 ?
> 
> Actually, Spacewalk ships three packages:
> 
> 	cobbler20
> 	cobbler2
> 	cobbler-epel
> 
> The cobbler20 and cobbler2 are always installed together -- it's just
> an rpm packaging issue to allow seamless upgrade from older versions.
> The package cobbler2 has no content. There is no cobbler-2 in
> Spacewalk repos.
> 
> If you want to install cobbler 2.2+ found in EPEL and Fedora, you have
> to install the package cobbler-epel and it will pull in the newer
> packages. Again, it's just an rpm packaging issue, cobbler-epel does
> not have any content.
> 
>> What is special about this/them compared to the standard cobbler
> 
> They just work, especially with SELinux in enforcing mode.
> 
>> - i am having ks rendering issues that only show up when using
>> these cobbler versions, if i replace them with a 'standard'
>> cobbler-2 all is fine.
> 
> Not sure what the cobbler-2 package is -- if you mean cobbler 2.2+
> from Fedora or EPEL -- if it works for you, just use that version.

so for clarity - if i wish to use a non spacewalk provided cobbler i can install cobbler-epel and during an upgrade cobbler wont get touched?

thanks