[Spacewalk-list] anyway to deal with SLES

[Reed, Steven]

You don't need to use a SMT server.  At least not with version 1.9.    2.0 should still be ok..

As long as you have a novell userid and password you can create a repo as you normally would using something like:

https://username:password@nu.novell.com/repo/$RCE/SLE11-HAE-SP3-Pool/sle-11-x86_64/

You will have to modify cobbler config as it doesn't interpret the $ in the url correctly.  Apart from that it's business as usual to sync novell repos and add clients.

Hth.

-----Original Message-----
From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mattias Giese
Sent: Saturday, 11 January 2014 7:04 PM
To: William Kwan; spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] anyway to deal with SLES

Heya,

On 01/10/2014 11:23 PM, William Kwan wrote:
> HI,
>
> Can't avoid this. There are a few SLES systems in the environment.
> Is there anyway to handle SLES 11 systems with Spacewalk 2.0?

Direct package sync won't work, you have to use a SMT server.
You may then create channels in your Spacewalk instance which will sync their content via a custom repo which point to your SMT server.
Automatic installation via cobbler will work, but you will have to supply a complete AutoYAST.

Client packages are built in the public OBS:
https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/systemsmanagement:spacewalk

Regards,

Mattias

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