[Spacewalk-list] How to download Spacewalk for an offline install?

[Dennis Pittman]

The simplest answer is trying using reposync to pull down and setup local repos.  Then point your offline server to the newly create local repos.
Your target repos would be all of those referenced in the spacewalk installation document.


Reference:  https://access.redhat.com/solutions/23016
Install the required packages

  *   Install the "yum-utils" and "createrepo" packages on the registered system.
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# yum install yum-utils createrepo
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Create a basic local repository
NOTE: Change <repo-id> to the repository you intend to sync

  *   Sync all the packages from a specified repository to a specified directory
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# reposync --gpgcheck -l --repoid=<repo-id>
for example:
# reposync --gpgcheck -l --repoid=rhel-6-server-rpms --download_path=/var/www/html

  *   In the targeted directory, there will be a new directory named after the Repository ID. All the downloaded packages will be inside this directory.
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# cd /var/www/html/<repo-id>
# createrepo -v /var/www/html/<repo-id>
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Create a local repository that allows clients to use groups
How to download all the metadata for the repository that is being synced which will allow the use of various plugins such as 'yum groupinstall'

  *   On RHEL6 and later, reposync supports the --download-metadata and --downloadcomps options. For example:
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# reposync --gpgcheck -l --repoid=repo-id --downloadcomps --download-metadata
for example:
# reposync --gpgcheck -l --repoid=rhel-6-server-rpms --download_path=/var/www/html --downloadcomps --download-metadata

  *   To have access to the group data for the newly synced repo, please run the createrepo command as follows:
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# cd /var/www/html/<repo-id>
# createrepo -v  /var/www/html/<repo-id>/ -g comps.xml
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Modify the repodata to define which packages are security related.

  *   These steps require that the createrepo command has already been run.
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# yum clean all
# yum list-sec
# find /var/cache/yum/ -name updateinfo.xml            ##For RHEL 5 use '-name *updateinfo.xml*'
# mv updateinfo.xml /var/www/html/<repo-id>/repodata/updateinfo.xml
# modifyrepo /var/www/html/<repo-id>/repodata/updateinfo.xml /var/www/html/<repo-id>/repodata

  *   How to update security Erratas on system which is not connected to internet ?<https://access.redhat.com/solutions/55654>

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Create a local repo with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

  *   Sync all enabled repositories and their repodata
Raw<https://access.redhat.com/solutions/23016>
# reposync -p <download-path> --download-metadata --setopt=repo_id.module_hotfixes=1


Regards,

Dennis

From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com <spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com> On Behalf Of Ananta Chakravartula
Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2019 8:32 AM
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] How to download Spacewalk for an offline install?

yumdownloader to some machine on internet and transfer to a local repo?

cheers,
ac

sent from my phone. Sory fer eny typeos

On Fri, Jun 21, 2019, 11:49 AM Paul Greene <paul.greene.va at gmail.com<mailto:paul.greene.va at gmail.com>> wrote:
Is there an archive you can download of just the needed Spacewalk 2.9 packages to do an offline install of Spacewalk (the server and client packages)?

I have access to CentOS 7 base, updates, and EPEL 7 via local repos, so I don't need anything from there - I just need the spacewalk rpms.

Thanks,

PG
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