[Spacewalk-list] Ubuntu/Deb Support

[Neal Gompa]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 10:59 AM Randall R. Sargent <rrsargent at pilotcat.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
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> **Newbie** to Spacewalk here. At the risk of beating a dead horse, has
> anyone been able to successfully manage Ubuntu clients on 2.8? We have
> 14.04 & 16.04 clients and it would make my life so much easier if I could
> get them to reliably work. I have been able to get 14.04 to register, and
> even update (with minor issues), but not 16.x. Documentation is spotty out
> there in Google-land.
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> Any help is appreciated!
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Hey, yeah, it's possible to successfully manage Ubuntu clients with
Spacewalk 2.8.

A couple of months ago, my colleague and I fixed the clients to work in
Spacewalk git master (upcoming Spacewalk 2.9), and we backported this to
the 2.8 clients.

The sources are here:
https://gitlab.com/datto/engineering/spacewalk-debian-client-packages

We also built the packages and published them on OBS. You can use them by
doing the following:

# If you have older clients from Debian/Ubuntu repos
$ sudo apt purge apt-transport-spacewalk rhnsd
$ sudo apt autoremove
# Installing the new packages
$ sudo bash -c 'echo "deb
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.8:/debclients/xUbuntu_16.04/
/" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spacewalk2.8-debclients.list'
$ sudo apt-key adv --fetch-keys
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.8:/debclients/xUbuntu_16.04/Release.key
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt install rhn-client-tools rhn-check rhn-setup rhnsd
apt-transport-spacewalk rhncfg rhncfg-actions

There are builds for xUbuntu 16.04 and 18.04, as well as Debian 8.0 and
9.0. Just swap "xUbuntu_16.04" in the instructions above for "xUbuntu_18.04"
or "Debian_8.0" or "Debian_9.0".

Future development of the clients are going into Spacewalk's next release.



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