[Spacewalk-list] spacewalk repositories & file stores

[Matthew Madey]

Take a look at this. I used this script to create public http repos on my
Spacewalk server under /var/www/html/pub. It links directly back to the
packages already in /var/satellite so there's not much disk space required

https://github.com/angrox/spacewalk-api-scripts/tree/master/spacewalk-create-yumrepo

On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 7:48 AM Brian Long <briandlong at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'll give you an example from a RHEL 6.9 spacewalk kickstart profile.
> The "url" line provides the distribution tree and that distribution
> has to be used at the end of each repo line to access the Spacewalk
> yum repos directly.
>
> url --url
> http://spacewalk-server.domain.com/ks/dist/org/1/RHEL_6.9_x86_64_ISO
> repo --name=spacewalk27-client-rhel6-x86_64
> --baseurl=
> http://spacewalk-server.domain.com/ks/dist/child/spacewalk27-client-rhel6-x86_64/RHEL_6.9_x86_64_ISO
> repo --name=rhel6-x86_64-extras
> --baseurl=
> http://spacewalk-server.domain.com/ks/dist/child/rhel6-x86_64-extras/RHEL_6.9_x86_64_ISO
> repo --name=epel6-rhel6-x86_64
> --baseurl=
> http://spacewalk-server.domain.com/ks/dist/child/epel6-rhel6-x86_64/RHEL_6.9_x86_64_ISO
> repo --name=rhel6-x86_64-updates
> --baseurl=
> http://spacewalk-server.domain.com/ks/dist/child/rhel6-x86_64-updates/RHEL_6.9_x86_64_ISO
>
> I could easily have a yum.conf.d file specifying
> baseurl=
> http://spacewalk-server.domain.com/ks/dist/child/spacewalk27-client-rhel6-x86_64/RHEL_6.9_x86_64_ISO
> to directly access the Spacewalk 2.7 client RPMs without having
> Spacewalk already installed.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> /Brian/
>
> On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 2:24 PM Laurence Rosen <lrosen at interactions.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Not even sure how to search (google) for this subject.
> >
> > I want to setup a locally available yum repo via http I can use to
> initially install the spacewalk client without internet access.
> > I currently have mirrored some repos via mrepo and serve those dir out
> to new client systems for easy client prms installation.
> >
> > The problem with this is it is duplicating the internal spacewalk repos
> I've setup wasting mus storage.
> >
> > Is there a way to utilize the all the cached data in spacewalk and serve
> out as yum repos rather than having another copy of all the rpms in
> /var/ww/mrepo?
> >
> > I am probably missing something stupid simple.  Also please direct me to
> any further documentation that describes how the spacewalk repo system
> works in detail.  I am constantly feeling
> >
> > --
> >
> > Larry R
> >
> >
> >
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