[Spacewalk-list] [EXTERNAL EMAIL] Re: End of life for Spacewalk project?

[Neal Gompa]

Bringing Uyuni back to CentOS shouldn't be too bad. I'm starting with
Fedora because there's a lot more stuff packaged there, and having a
working state on Fedora is 80% of the work for bringing it to CentOS 8
anyway. Once I get it working on Fedora, then it should be
straightforward to get it working on CentOS 8.

The Uyuni folks have committed to maintaining upstream support for
Fedora and CentOS once it's supported again in the upstream tree. They
haven't broken too much of the Fedora/CentOS server support. The main
thing is that they switched from YUM to Zypper for some things, and
that's not possible to support on CentOS. They've already approved
switching to DNF as a community feature, so once that's done, it's
just filling in any missing packages. :)

On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 8:03 AM Simon Avery
<Simon.Avery at atass-sports.co.uk> wrote:
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> You’re correct, the installer does only work on a Suse machine. I don’t know what it would take to force it onto Centos, but I suspect it would be not trivial.
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> That said, I found installing Suse and Uyuni pain free following their guide – although it obviously is another technology to support if you don’t already do Suse.
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> I’d rather it wasn’t on Suse, but it is. It was forked for and is and integral to the Suse management plan, so one can’t begrudge them tailoring it to their distro.
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> On balance, and the only other slightly viable alternative being Katello/Foreman, Uyuni is looking the lesser of two evils for us. YMMV.
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> From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com <spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com> On Behalf Of Andreas Dijkman
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> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] [EXTERNAL EMAIL] Re: End of life for Spacewalk project?
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> Uyuni would be a nice candidate, but in their docs it (obviously) states it can only be installed on SuSE Leap. I don’t have a single SuSE-machine running and I don’t intend to. Can I just add this repos to a CentOS or OracleLinux VM and do a ‘yum install uyuni’?
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> Andreas Dijkman
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