[Spacewalk-list] How to use external repos with Spacewalk and keep the standard repos on clients

[Waldirio Manhães Pinheiro]

Hello Markus, good morning

I'll try to help with some points.

1. Actually there isn't this feature on SW/Satellite 5 as well, btw in the
foreman project we use OnDemand to repository, then is exactly what you are
saying *download metadata and provide the info*, then when client request
data, this will be downloaded. Maybe someone have another idea on SW but by
default I believe be able.

2. I'm not sure if I follow you here ..., maybe a better description should
be fine btw your customer should not be able to install directly from your
SW server ? when you say *We have
people who are on the road sometimes and they wouldn't be able to install
anything without company network connection* so ... *nearby mirror* should
be from your SW/Proxies I believe.

Hope the info above help you. Please let us know more about item 2 then we
can think about.

Best


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On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 11:18 AM, Markus Krause <Krause.Markus at gmx.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am currently evaluating Spacewalk 2.8 as we plan to roll out a set of
> Fedora28 laptop clients to a group of developers. Users will have
> administrative privileges, but we want to audit the systems and be able to
> support people with keeping their systems up to date or push common config
> updates.
>
> I so far love the Spacewalk concept, but there are 2 major points that
> confuse
> me and seem to be kind of a deal-breaker. I hope you can clarify:
>
> 1) How to use external repo URLs without syncing the whole thing?
> It confuses me a lot. You create a software channel, create a repo from a
> URL
> and then instead of just taking the metainfo and provide the package info,
> there seems to be no way around syncing the whole thing again onto the
> spacewalk machine?!
> I do not want that. We have a self-maintained yum repo for internal self-
> packaged stuff and other than that we use the official mirrors, no matter
> if
> Centos7 or Fedora. There are so many good mirrors, I do not see a point in
> mirroring the base repos again. (Fedora has like 50k packages, that's a
> major
> amount of wasted storage) Also our company repo is not exactly small, I do
> not
> want another copy apart from the backup.
>
> 2) Even if was to mirror the repos, how so I organise coexistence with the
> official one enabled on the systems? I do not want to disable these. We
> have
> people who are on the road sometimes and they wouldn't be able to install
> anything without company network connection. I want them to be able to use
> a
> nearby mirror whereever they are.
> How would one manage this?
>
> Looking forward to your suggestions!
>
>
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