[Spacewalk-list] Auto-Installation packages from Systems->Keys

[Lachlan Musicman]

Konstantin,

I disagree with Avi in that "it works". I have also not known it to work on
Kickstarted machines. I found I had to add the packages to the software
list under profiles.

I am sure that is how it's meant to work - it would appear to be a good
thing and an obvious functionality. But I've never known it to work either.
My suspicion is on the cobbler/spacewalk snippets, but it's hard to pin
down.

I also found that the files weren't distributed on Kickstart without
shoe-horning them in with a post install script.

Let me know if you need the script to see it working.

Cheers
L.

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On 8 April 2016 at 07:41, Avi Miller <avi.miller at oracle.com> wrote:

> It works if the packages are in a channel that is activated by the same
> key. It also requires any GPG keys required by those packages to already be
> installed on the target system.
>
> On the plus side, it works regardless of whether the system was
> kickstarted by Spacewalk or not. Assuming you have the keys in place, any
> system registered with that key will attempt to install the packages listed.
>
> > On 8 Apr 2016, at 6:23 AM, Konstantin Raskoshnyi <konrasko at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I found a great function, if you go to Systems->Activation
> keys->%KEY%->Packages
> >
> > Seems like they should be installed on every system kickstarted with
> this key.
> >
> > But it doesn't work. There're no logs too.
> >
> > I feel like this works only the system added to the spacewalk, but then
> it doesn't make sense at all.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
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