[Spacewalk-list] Is it possible to use spacewalk without registering?

[William H. ten Bensel]

You can, just pay attention to the NOTE from item 2. 

1.  Create a distribution. 
        You may have this already done.  If not, there is plenty of 
documentation out there on how to do this.

2.  Create a kickstart profile for each parent (base) channel, and select 
all of the child channels that you want exposed. 
        Again, plenty of documentation out there for creating channels and 
kickstart profiles.

        NOTE: Do not have any packages in the parent channel, all packages 
need to be in the child channels.    I could not figure out how to get the 
parent exported properly. 
                If you have packages in the parent channel:
                a)  If you are "cloning" channels like most users are.. ie 
upstream, dev, test, prod.  You will want to create an empty child channel 
of the upstream parent channel, and then clone it to dev.  Then clone dev 
-> test, test -> prod.
                b)  Compare the channels, and copy all of the packages 
into the appropriate child channel.
                c)  Empty out the parent channel AFTER verifying the # of 
packages match the new child channel
                d) Update any scheduled tasks for repository sync's to the 
new child channel

3.  Under the kickstart profile, there is a tab that says kickstart file. 
There you will see the baseurl that is needed.
        If you want to script the creation of the baseurls, the following 
will assist:

        http://<spacewalk>/ks/dist/child/<child channel 
label>/<distribution label>

4. Create a .repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d/, with the baseurls that are 
listed in the kickstart file.


In addition, the following is a great way to mirror only the packages and 
create http repositories by using cron, httpd/nginx, reposync, createrepo, 
hardlink (space saver).  However, when you download the packages it 
creates a directory called getPackage. 

Why even do the mirror???  I have seen these three reasons, there may be 
more.

        a)  Migrating off of Spacewalk into just http repositories and 
kickstart url.   Using other tools (chef/ansible/puppet) to manage 
configuration files and inventory.
        b) There are devices that are restricted from connecting to almost 
everything in which you and another party, who validates the repo, have to 
sneakernet the repo. 
        c)  yum and yum download are horrible for devices that have 
limited or intermittent network bandwidth.  By doing the mirror, you can 
push only the needed packages to the system through other means that have 
resume type functionality (rsync/wget/etc)...


- Thanks and good luck




From:   Michael Mraka <michael.mraka at redhat.com>
To:     spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Date:   10/14/2019 04:31 AM
Subject:        Re: [Spacewalk-list] Is it possible to use spacewalk 
without registering?
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Guy Matz:
> Hi!  I have some machines that I don't really want to keep track of in
> spacewalk, but I don't want them going out into the wild for their 
packages
> . . .I'm wondering if I can use the repos I have defined on my spacewalk
> server for these machines without having registered them in SW.
> 
> I see that someone asked this question a number of years ago:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/2011-June/msg00120.html
> 
> Is it now possible?

Not really.

The situation has not changed since then.

> Thanks!!

Regards,

--
Michael Mráka
System Management Engineering, Red Hat

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