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

Fri Apr 8 07:20:21 UTC 2016

Hi,

if you use some system, which does not have rhn-* packages in base channel,
you have to add repo with this packages or install them manually. In
default, the kickstart contains "rhn-setup, rhn-check, rhn-client-tool".

Open "Advanced Options" in you kickstart profile and put next line into
"Custom options:". You have to change this line for you OS.

repo --name=Spacewalk-client-base  --baseurl=
http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/nightly-client/Fedora/23/i386/

B.R.
Martin

On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 2:54 AM, Avi Miller <avi.miller at oracle.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> You can get all of those packages installed without registration IF
> they're in one of the channels available during the kickstart process AND
> you've deployed the correct GPG key for the packages. If you're using the
> upstream Spacewalk packages, you need to deploy the
> RPM-GPG-KEY-spacewalk-2015 key first, before these packages will install.
>
> I deploy all of those during kickstart without a problem using the builds
> from Oracle (because my target servers already have the Oracle Linux GPG
> key installed) and on my CentOS boxes, I deploy the GPG key during the
> kickstart process itself and then these packages are installed
> automatically by Spacewalk to enable registration. About the only ones you
> have to manually deploy are the rhncfg-* packages.
>
> For example, Spacewalk will automatically deploy rhn-virtualization-host
> if the activation key used is entitled to either VIrtualization or
> Virtualization Platform. Likewise, the standard client RPMs will be
> deployed if Spacewalk detects them in one of the enabled child channels in
> the kickstart profile.
>
> Cheers,
> Avi
>
> On 8 Apr 2016, at 10:41 AM, Konstantin Raskoshnyi <konrasko at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I thought i'd work for a new kickstart machine...for example if I put
> these packages they won't be installed, because first - you need to
> register your machine.
> I then you need to add packages into your kickstart.
> rhn-client-tools
> rhn-check
> rhn-setup
> rhnsd
> m2crypto
> yum-rhn-plugin
> rhncfg-actions
> rhn-virtualization-host
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 3:59 PM, Avi Miller <avi.miller at oracle.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> It works fine for me. :) YMMV.
>>
>> 1. Deploy the GPG keys for your target channels (via Kickstart or
>> Configuration Channel or some other method)
>> 2. Ensure the correct software channels are enabled for the activation key
>> 3. List the packages you want installed by that key
>>
>> The kicker is usually step 1: making sure your target systems have the
>> appropriate GPG key for the packages you want the activation key to
>> install. It would be super peachy keen if you could associate GPG keys with
>> activation keys so that it's more obvious.
>>
>> Note that step 2 can be tricky too, because the activation key will
>> override the kickstart channels. So it's not cumulative, it's a replacement.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Avi
>>
>> On 8 Apr 2016, at 8:42 AM, Lachlan Musicman <datakid at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> ------
>> The most dangerous phrase in the language is, "We've always done it this
>> way."
>>
>> - Grace Hopper
>>
>> 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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