[Spacewalk-list] [Spacewalk-devel] Spacewalk got forked?! WTF is going on?!

Neal Gompa ngompa13 at gmail.com
Tue May 29 12:25:46 UTC 2018


On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 8:23 AM Florian Panzer - ratiokontakt GmbH <
fp at ratiokontakt.de> wrote:

> Am 28.05.2018 um 16:30 schrieb Nikos Zaharioudakis:
> > Hi list
> >
> > Taking the news on Twitter there was some interesting discussion as well
> >
> > https://twitter.com/dmacvicar/status/1000652216523546624?s=19
> >
> > Between Jan Wildeboer (community manager at RH ) and Duncan Mac-Vicar
> >
> > The video presentation is interesting as well
> >

> It would be awesome to have "proper Spacewalk support for Ubuntu/Debian".

> But is it really necessary to reinvent the wheel? (Set aside that SuSE
> people, traditionally sitting on their hands, are probably not *mumble*)


> I think we're basically already there, we'd just need 1 or 2 people
> taking proper care of the clients instead of hacking stuff together in a
> "works for me" kind of manner.
> Here, we have Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 running with every aspect of
> Spacewalk at the time of me writing this.

> I mean, think of Spacewalk as it is now, just with proper working .deb
> Client packages for all active Debian and Ubuntu releases.

> Would 80% of the pepole really need MORE?

> Heck, maybe I'll even do the packages myself in the next days or have my
> colleagues do it....


It's something I'm working on now, since $DAYJOB is looking to use it to
manage Ubuntu workstations.

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