[Spacewalk-list] Trying not to reinvent the wheel.....

[Glen Collins]

Thanks for the info all! I don't use the kickstart and probably never will. I'm just using SW as a patching server. It would be nice those, DEV's out there is there was a way in the API so that it was built in so you could just goto say:

http[s]://<sw server>/api/repo/centos-x86_64/

in a yum based system without the need to create a repo. It would contain the necessary repodata directory files and a link to the rpm's. Just use an existing known channel. Just a thought I wanted to throw out there. Don't know how complicated it would be or even if it can be done. But hey, why not ask.

Thanks again for all your assistance!

Glen Collins

----- Original Message -----
Hi,

>> 1) Is there a way to download the yum updates so I can connect a newly installed rhel/centos/oracle linux system to spacewalk using the existing channels?
> 
> If there is, I haven't found it either. :)

I found it in the SuSE-Manager documentation:

http://$c_server/ks/dist/child/channel-label/distribution-label

$c_server is the hostname of your spacewalk server
channel-label is the channel you want to use
distribution-label is the distribution the channel belongs to

I use it with zypper, but it also works with yum. 
You can find it in the kickstart file if you have extra channels enabled in the kickstart profile. You will find some lines like:
repo —name=centos-epel-6-x86_64 --baseurl=http://your-spacewalk-server/ks/dist/child/centos-epel-6-x86_64/CENTOS-6-x86_64


Regards,
Bernhard

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