[Spacewalk-list] Using Spacewalk also as basic repo server

[Thomas Foster]

Its the same..createrepo creates the necessary files to allow yum to
download the files from a webserver.
On Sep 16, 2014 9:57 AM, "J Epperson" <spacewalk at epperson.homelinux.net>
wrote:

>  Well, I'd use yum, not rpm.  But here's an example of how we do the HP
> Proliant Support Pack repos.  With this setup we can do "yum
> --enablerepo=HP-spp install <package>" for any SPP package (but you could
> use rpm and URLs if you insist).  We don't use Satellite/spacewalk child
> channels because we'd have to replicate them for each QA snapshot clone
> base channel.
>
> HP-spp.repo:
>
> # Local HP spp repo for hp-health, hp-snmp-agents, hpacucli, etc.
> [HP-spp]
> name=HP Software Delivery Repository for spp
> baseurl=http://satellite/pub/repos/hp/spp/$releasever/$basearch
> enabled=0
> gpgcheck=1
> #gpgkey=http://satellite/pub/repos/hp/spp/GPG-KEY-spp
> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/GPG-KEY-spp
>
> # ls -l /var/www/html/pub/repos/hp/spp
> total 140
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 45056 Sep 14 04:46 5-i386
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Feb 27  2014 5Server
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 36864 Sep 14 04:47 5-x86_64
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 20480 Sep 14 04:46 6-i386
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Feb 27  2014 6Server
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 20480 Sep 14 04:46 6-x86_64
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   990 Jan 30  2014 GPG-KEY-spp
>
> hp-reposync.sh script:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> # Syncs the HP hardware snmp tools repos from hp
> # Note: reposync is known to throw spurious "listed more than once" repo
> messages when yum-rhn-plugin is present.
> #
> # Implemented via soft link in /etc/cron.weekly
> #
> REPOCFG="/etc/yum.repos.d/HP-spp-mirror.repo"
> REPODIR="/var/www/html/pub/repos/hp/spp"
> # Get repo list from REPOCFG, pipe to reposync and createrepo
> grep "\[.*\]" $REPOCFG|sed "s/\[//g"|sed "s/\]//g"|\
> while read REPO
> do
>   /usr/bin/reposync -c $REPOCFG -r $REPO -p $REPODIR
>   /usr/bin/createrepo -d $REPODIR/$REPO/
> done
>
> HP-spp-mirror.repo:
>
> # For local mirroring of HP Proliant spp yum repos
> # DO NOT enable these repos!
> [6-i386]
> name=HP Proliant spp 6 x32
> baseurl=
> http://downloads.linux.hp.com/repo/spp/RedHatEnterpriseServer/6Server/i386/current
> enabled=0
> gpgcheck=1
> gpgkey=http://downloads.linux.hp.com/SDR/repo/spp/GPG-KEY-spp
>
> [6-x86_64]
> name=HP Proliant spp 6 x64
> baseurl=
> http://downloads.linux.hp.com/repo/spp/RedHatEnterpriseServer/6Server/x86_64/current
> enabled=0
> gpgcheck=1
> gpgkey=http://downloads.linux.hp.com/SDR/repo/spp/GPG-KEY-spp
>
> [5-i386]
> name=HP Proliant spp 5 x32
> baseurl=
> http://downloads.linux.hp.com/repo/spp/RedHatEnterpriseServer/5Server/i386/current
> enabled=0
> gpgcheck=1
> gpgkey=http://downloads.linux.hp.com/SDR/repo/spp/GPG-KEY-spp
>
> [5-x86_64]
> name=HP Proliant spp 5 x64
> baseurl=
> http://downloads.linux.hp.com/repo/spp/RedHatEnterpriseServer/5Server/x86_64/current
> enabled=0
> gpgcheck=1
> gpgkey=http://downloads.linux.hp.com/SDR/repo/spp/GPG-KEY-spp
>
>
>
>
> On 2014-09-16 9:15, Thomas Foster wrote:
>
> Spacewalk is using a webserver, so you could use createrepo to add rpm
> packages to the same server different location.
>
> https://access.redhat.com/solutions/7227
>
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 9:03 AM, Glen Collins <glenc2004 at comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
>>  Hi All,
>>
>>      I'm wondering if it's possible to use Spacewalk as both the repo
>> server it's meant to be but also a be able to use the rpm -ivf
>> http://ip/<path>/file.rpm to be able to download rpm files from the
>> command line. I've bee searching on specific keywords for this type of use
>> but cannot find any type of content that would show me how this can be
>> done. It will just make it easier if I can combine both a regular local yum
>> server and the features of spacewalk.
>>
>> If this is possible, would someone be able to provide a sample baseurl
>> that would work?
>>
>> So in conclusion:
>>
>> 1) Use Spacewalk to manage the RHEL/CENTOS systems
>> 2) Use spacewalk resources and be able to download rpm's from it's
>> repo/channel from the linux command line using "rpm -ivh
>> http://ip/path/filename.rpm"
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Glen Collins
>>
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