[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk with Puppet design

[Mattias Giese]

Heya,

On 03/10/15 13:20:02, Sergey Zemlyanoy wrote:
> Thanks I’ll check, but am I right it controls repos/channels on Spacewalk?
> 
> What about YUM repos provided by SW on clients’ side?

You could use the binary rhn-channel (or spacewalk-channel, i think?) on
the client side to manage the association of channels. Bummer is that
you need to provide credentials to this program in order to do so.

> 
> 
> Another question – is there a chance to enforce SW do not mirror remote repos, but only sync list of packages’ names and then install updates from external repos registered on clients?

Nope, not really. The point of Spacewalk is to provide a single point of
entry for all software management needs. It is AFAIK not possible to
only sync metadata without the packages.

Regards,

Mattias

> 
> BR
> Sergey
> 
> From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Thomas Foster
> Sent: Friday, October 2, 2015 8:53 PM
> To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk with Puppet design
> 
> 
> Sergey,
> 
> I created this puppet module to control local repos for my environment.  This might give you some ideas...
> 
> https://github.com/nohtyp/vtlrepo
> On Oct 2, 2015 1:46 PM, "Sergey Zemlyanoy" <s.zemlyanoy at levi9.com<mailto:s.zemlyanoy at levi9.com>> wrote:
> Dear spacewalkers,
> 
> I want to provide Spacewalk in our environment in order to keep all systems updated and have reporting systems cross the board. In meantime we are widely using puppet for configuration, setup etc.
> There are few issues I’m concerning about:
> 
> 1.       Manage yum repos by puppet, disable rhnplugin to hide channels as YUM repos on clients and force SW to install updates from unmanaged repositories. How can I prevent SW to download packages locally to itself but just update list of packages?
> 
> 2.       Manage client’s yum repos by SW channels but I still want to have control over local YUM repos by puppet. Is it feasible?
> 
> Any advice much appreciated!
>                 Regards,
> Sergey
> 
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