[Spacewalk-list] Ubuntu/Deb Support

[Randall R. Sargent]

Robert – Your comment on the repo not being signed sounds like the issue. Do I assign a gpg key to the Channel, or do I assign a cert to the repo?

*I’m seeing messages in the archive long before I get the email.

From: Randall R. Sargent
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2018 2:08 PM
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: RE: [Spacewalk-list] Ubuntu/Deb Support

Thanks much for this. I’m not seeing any difference in the behavior of my 16.04 clients. They are able to register, but doing a package update fails (any package):

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From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com<mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com> <spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com<mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com>> On Behalf Of Neal Gompa
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On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 10:59 AM Randall R. Sargent <rrsargent at pilotcat.com<mailto:rrsargent at pilotcat.com>> wrote:
Hi all,

*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.

Any help is appreciated!


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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