[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.5 is broken for Fedora

[Luzemário Dantas]

Hi,

We are replacing Windows XP on 200+ machines because security issues. 
Our team decided to use Fedora by a series of reasons. We thought of 
Spacewalk because it helps in remote management.


Em 22-08-2016 17:45, Kobus Bensch escreveu:
> Hi
>
> What are you using of the fedora desktops please?
>
> Kobus
>
>
>> On 22 Aug 2016, at 21:26, Luzemário Dantas <luzemario at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:luzemario at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> After dozen of unsucessful tries to deploy Fedora 22-23 within 
>> Spacewalk 2.5, I will leave. Initially I guessed it was my mistake, 
>> but I could sucessfully deploy and manage almost all supported 
>> CentOS/RedHat/Oracle versions and some old Fedora releases in my 
>> tests. Kickstartable trees created by spacewalk-repo-sync for the 
>> latest Fedora versions did not have the needed files, making broken 
>> distro-trees. Adding the files manually leads to an absent file, 
>> another absent file... until Anaconda aborts claiming about @core 
>> packages being not found. It appears to be the installer generation 
>> script "Fedora" is outdated in Spacewalk.
>>
>> The documentation of Spacewalk is poor. The wiki is outdated, 
>> sometimes incomplete and referring to old versions of spacewalk, 
>> specially the "HowToKickstartCobbler" section. It seems that there 
>> are few people using the combination Spacewalk 2.5 / Fedora 22-23, so 
>> I could not find someone to give me any light.
>>
>> Unfortunately I need to deploy Fedora desktops instead of servers, so 
>> I decided to use another solution. Spacewalk is a good solution for 
>> the platforms working with it, so I can let another try in the future.
>>
>> Thank you all for your time.
>>
>> Luzemário
>>
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> Kobus Bensch
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