[Spacewalk-list] How To Update spacewalk client channel repository?

[Michael Mraka]

Paul Robert Marino wrote:
% I mirror the client repos into a channel on my spacewalk server and do the
% install on my client boxes via the spacewalk channel. This way all I rave to do
% is re-point the repository for the channel to sync to the new repo, sync it and
% run a yum update on the client host.

You can even point repo for your spacewalk client packages to

  http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/latest-client/<os>/<version>/<arch>/

and get new packages automatically whenever new Spacewalk is released.


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% On Sep 3, 2013 9:48, Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator
% <goetz.reinicke at filmakademie.de> wrote:
% 
% Hi,
% 
% after successfully upgrading our spacewalk 1.9 to 2.0 setup, I noticed,
% that still the 1.7 path is configured for the spacewalk client repository.
% 
% My question:
% 
% - do I have to update the client repository rpm on the managed servers?
% - Can I change the URL in the "Repository Details" under Channels ->
% Manage Software Channels -> Manage Repositories ?
% 
% Thanks for any hint and suggestion . Regards . Götz
% 
% --
% Götz Reinicke

Regards,

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Michael Mráka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat