[Spacewalk-list] ubuntu repositories and errata

[Coffman, Anthony J]

I tried it last year with 13.04 and I was able to get a few things to work but there were critical problems I couldn't resolve.

I could sync 99% of packages but there were a small number in most repos that said the package was invalid.  From memory - it was a known issue with a reasonable explanation that had to do with the type of content that was permissible in apt repos versus yum repos.

I could register clients and subscribe them to channels and see their package lists.

I couldn't install packages either from the client end nor from the server.  It threw an error - from memory this was a known issue and there wasn't a fix available at the time but there were patches that made it slightly better.  Any sort of client action threw errors on both the client and server.

Didn't go any further after that and eventually I ripped it out because the repos are so huge and I only have a small number of Ubuntu systems with limited time to throw at them.  I'm hopeful that pulp Debian support will eventually become mature enough so I that I can get these into Katello.  In the meantime, I'm back to manually dealing with frozen repo cloning in order to provide stable baselines.

If somebody gets this working on any version of Ubuntu, I'd love to hear about it.

--Tony







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I'm interested in this as well. I've seen bits and pieces of this around, but unsure how up to date they are:
https://launchpad.net/~mj-casalogic/+archive/ubuntu/spacewalk-ubuntu
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/raring/man8/spacewalk-channel.8.html

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Subject: [Spacewalk-list] ubuntu repositories and errata

Is it possible to create Ubuntu repositories and software channels in spacewalk? We would like to start using Ubuntu and need the ability to centrally manage updates. We would like to have it sync the errata and be able to push out the packages to the servers. Has anyone done this and have information they can send my way to do this?

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