[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk for both RHEL 6.x and OUL 6.x - Possible?

[Glen Collins]

Hi,

   And thanks for your reply. While the option you gave will work, I don't think it'll work when you need two authenticated repositories like RHEL and Oracle.
Both require logins to get their respective support contract only changes. Downloading RHEL, CentOS and EPEL only requires RHEL attachment to their REPO with contract support if you so desire. What I'm looking for is to be able to get both RHEL and Oracle into one system so that you only need one pane of glass to patch every system. Since both RHEL and Oracle support connecting to spacewalk, I don't see support as being an issue as long as you create the correct repos for each system type and do not co-mingle rpm's. So to me at this time, I see no way of doing what I'm trying to do because of the issue with account authentication to receive the support contract fixes. Duplication of the rpm's is not an issue to me since disk is cheap and once the entire library is downloaded, it's just the changes that require downloads.

I would try and use other software that's out there but I don't know of any that will do this without being bloated with other stuff I don't want to use or see. I just want to patch 500+ servers without issue. But still have the ability to see what's been patched or what's outdated. Plus I like the look of the new 2.2 interface. Seems slick!

Thanks!

Glen

----- Original Message -----
On Thu, 4 Sep 2014 06:39:26 +1000
Avi Miller <avi.miller at oracle.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 4 Sep 2014, at 2:11 am, Glen Collins <glenc2004 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> > I know Spacewalk is now capable of maintaining OUL but trying to
> > get the rpm's from both vendors is confusing. I'm honestly not sure
> > what to look for now as I have tried too many google searches and
> > too many permutations of RHEL and OUL. If someone can just give a
> > link to into it would be appreciated.
> 
> I'm assuming you mean OL or Oracle Linux here? If so, combining both
> RHEL and OL into a single Spacewalk instance is easy, but it'll
> prevent you from getting support from one of the vendors, I suspect.
> For example, if you have an existing Spacewalk 2.2 instance installed
> from the Spacewalk repos, it supports updating from both the Oracle
> Unbreakable Linux Network as well as the public-yum.oracle.com
> repositories. However, you can't get support from Oracle for it.
> 
> Likewise, if you were to use Spacewalk 2.0 provided by Oracle, you'd
> get support from Oracle for the server and any Oracle Linux clients
> you have connected to it, but we wouldn't support RHEL clients.
> 
> Therefore, you just need to pick which scenario you prefer. 
> 
> Though, I didn't think you could connect Spacewalk directly to RHN
> for updates. Doesn't that require a Satellite subscription? If so,
> you would be running Satellite, not Spacewalk. And you'd get support
> from Red Hat for the Satellite deployment. You can still sync the
> Oracle Linux public-yum.oracle.com repos into Satellite, but there is
> no ULN integration. I'd be happy to send you the ULN integration
> script, but I'm not sure what that would do for your support with Red
> Hat. :)
> 

Spacewalk + mrepo works just fine to get Redhat updates into spacewalk.
I don't think spacewalk is supported by redhat anyway, so I would just
go ahead and go for it. At a client of mine, I implemented redhat,
centos, EPEL and custom packages all in spacewalk, with their erratas.

Franky


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