[Spacewalk-list] CentOS repos reappear in /etc/yum.repos.d

[Gerald Vogt]

On 27.11.19 18:54, David Dales wrote:
> If I'm not mistaken setting the "enabled=0" won't work. If Spacewalk/Yum discovers multiple repository sources with the same source URL it will fail.

You are mistaken. yum doesn't care about the source URL or whether two 
or more repos use the same url.

And you are not using the same source URLs anyway: the repo files use 
the centos mirrors directly and the repos provided by your spacewalk 
server use your spacewalk server. Thus they are very different.

Only the repositories you configure on your spacewalk server must be 
unique. But that has nothing to do what yum does on your servers.

> We use puppet to remove the entries under /etc/yum.repos.d/ to avoid this problem

Don't. Set enabled=0 to disable the repos in the local repo files. 
That's how it works.

-Gerald

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> The centos-release rpm contains all the repo files. If they are missing they are restored during the next install/update. That is standard rpm behavior for config files in rpms.
> 
> Don't (re)move the CentOS repo files. If you don't want to use those repos, modify the files and set all repositories in the files to "enabled=0".
> 
> Config files are not overwritten if they exist. That's the case for any config file from any rpm.
> 
> For example, if you have installed the apache webserver with the httpd rpm you cannot remove the welcome page by deleting /etc/httpd/conf.d/welcome.conf. It would come back during the next update.
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> -Gerald
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> On 27.11.19 18:43, Nicole Beck wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a Spacewalk 2.9 server and a CentOS 7 client using the
>> Spacewalk
>> 2.9 client.  After registering the client with rhnreg_ks, I moved all
>> of the files from /etc/yum.repos.d to /etc/yum.repos.d.o. The "yum
>> repolist" command shows that I'm using the repositories from my
>> spacewalk server. I've noticed that when I update the client
>> (specifically the centos-release package), the Centos-* repository
>> files reappear in /etc/yum.repos.d.  Is there any way to prevent this
>> from happening?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Nicole
>>
>>
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