[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk client install and uninstall....

[Glen Collins]

Hi Avi,

   Thanks for the info! As for the removal of the client, I was just looking for a way to remove and test reinstall since I don't have the ability or access to snapshots. But I'll just deal with it as it comes.

Thanks again!

Glen Collins

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

On 19 Sep 2014, at 8:01 am, Glen Collins <glenc2004 at comcast.net> wrote:

> would these ever get replaced by the vendor versions? So like Redhat and Oracle Enterprise Linux during normal patching? I'm just wondering if I need to exclude these from being updated.

For Oracle Linux (no Enterprise, btw), the Spacewalk client is always a higher version that the stock client.

> And the other question is, how safe is it to remove the spacewalk client packages and reinstall the vendor ones. Can I safely uninstall or maybe even downgrade the packages back to the vendor versions? I'm curious to try but I don't have a test/play system to destroy.

That depends on your definition of “safe” :) If you revert back to the vendor client on Oracle Linux, it would no longer be able to connect to Spacewalk.

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