[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk capable of handling mirror-lists?

[Michael Mraka]

Thomas Schweikle:
> Hi!
> 
> is Spacewalk 2.9 capable of handling mirrorlists as given back by
> 
> # curl '
> http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=8&arch=x86_64&repo=BaseOS&infra=stock'
> http://mirror2.hs-esslingen.de/centos/8.1.1911/BaseOS/x86_64/os/
> http://ftp.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/pub/mirrors/centos/8.1.1911/BaseOS/x86_64/os/
> http://mirror.imt-systems.com/centos/8.1.1911/BaseOS/x86_64/os/
> http://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/linux/CentOS/8.1.1911/BaseOS/x86_64/os/
> http://mirror.checkdomain.de/centos/8.1.1911/BaseOS/x86_64/os/
> http://artfiles.org/centos.org/8.1.1911/BaseOS/x86_64/os/
> http://ftp.plusline.net/centos/8.1.1911/BaseOS/x86_64/os/
> http://centos.mirror.iphh.net/CentOS/8.1.1911/BaseOS/x86_64/os/
> http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/centos/8.1.1911/BaseOS/x86_64/os/
> http://centos.mirrors.psw.services/centos/8.1.1911/BaseOS/x86_64/os/
> 
> Could not find anything to this subject within the handbooks. They only
> talk about single url. I'd like to have spacewalk take other servers, if
> some are not reachable automatically. Any way to accomplish this if
> spacewalk itself does not understand mirrorlists?

Yes, it uses yum to download and process packages so any url which
works in yum also works in spacewalk-repo-sync.

Regards,

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Michael Mráka
System Management Engineering, Red Hat