[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk life expectancy

[Tomáš Kašpárek]

Hello Colin,

On 10/09/2017 05:28 AM, Colin Coe wrote:
> Hi all
>
> With Satellite 5.8 slated for end of life January 2019, will Spacewalk 
> continue to be able to sync RHEL content?
I see no reason, why Spacewalk shouldn't be able to sync RHEL content.
>
> My understanding is that RHEL7 content can be synchronised now, is the 
> expectation that RHEL8 content will be sync'able?
I personally would expect so.
>
> For RHEL7 (and up-coming RHEL8), is the abmoniation that is 
> subscription-manager be mandatory?
To receive updates for any RHEL machine, you'll need to register using 
subscription-manager. The communication between the clients and the 
Spacewalk server however remains the same - using the 
rhn_register/rhnreg_ks/rhn_check.
>
> Just trying to find a way forward as, after working with Satellite v6 
> for more than a year now, and having done RH403, it is an utterly 
> unusable product.
>
> Thanks

Regards,
Tomas