[Spacewalk-list] Install/upgrade Patch ubuntu/debian system using spacewalk

[Paschedag, Robert]

No official documentation, but @phils blog  (http://www.devops-blog.net/category/spacewalk) is a good starting point when you want to manage Ubuntu clients with spacewalk

This is a "repository" I created just to be able get the spacewalk "clients" to work on a fresh Debian system

[root at srv debian]# ls -l stretch/spacewalk/
insgesamt 736
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   8448 12. Jul 2017  apt-transport-spacewalk_1.0.6-4.1_all.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  79094 12. Jul 2017  python-dmidecode_3.12.2-3_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  18268 12. Jul 2017  python-ethtool_0.12-1.1_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  12208 12. Jul 2017  python-gudev_147.2-3_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  42094 12. Jul 2017  python-newt_0.52.19-1+b1_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  25568 12. Jul 2017  python-rhn_2.5.72-1_all.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 111380 12. Jul 2017  rhncfg_5.10.73-1_all.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 412508 12. Jul 2017  rhn-client-tools_2.3.5-1_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  23168 12. Jul 2017  rhnsd_5.0.4-3+b1_amd64.deb
[root at srv debian]#


I think only the "rhncfg" or "rhnsd" package is from a "ubuntu" repository, but works well on Debian.

Of course, you can get newer versions of the packages if available. You should also have the default Debian repositories subscribed, because there
Are a lot of python dependencies that must be solved while you are installing.

Also, create these 2 directories

mkdir -p /var/lib/up2date
mkdir -p /var/spool/rhn/remote-script

Otherwise you won't be able to run custom-scripts via spacewalk on the client.

Just download and manually install these package and try to get started.

Robert



Von: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com <spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com> Im Auftrag von Yakin, Francis
Gesendet: Freitag, 30. März 2018 20:14
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Does anyone have experience or documentation to install spacewalk client and install the packages on Ubuntu/Debian systems?

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