Michael, >Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 16:47:33 -0500 >From: "Michael ORourke" <[email protected]> > >Actually, there has been some message threads about this same issue that are
I missed them, I'm afraid, and when I googled, it didn't turn them up. >in the archives, but yes... the duplication of packages (RPMs) is common >with a spacewalk system. The problem is that the tools such as reposync, >rsync, and cobbler don't know how to synchronize directly with spacewalk. >So you have to synchronize all the pkgs locally first, then push them into >spacewalk. >One of the better solutions I have seen was to create links to the packages >with the files under /var/satellite. Then you will only have one copy of >the actual packages on your system and the links will fool reposync into >functioning properly. Now that requires some additional scripting to pull >that off. What additional scripting? Can't I just ln -s /var/satellite /var/www/html/pub ? >I've seen some say to just delete the reposync'd packages after >pushing them into spacewalk, but that seems like a huge waste of bandwidth >because everytime you reposync you will be pulling all the packages down >again. Hmmm... having just written a script to do backups of the significant parts all our systems, and for the first time using hard links, that might be a solution. >Also worth noting... I believe some of the info on the ><https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/ManagingFedoraSystems> may be >out-of-date with the most recent release of spacewalk (v0.4). At least with >respect to the "Kickstarting Fedora clients" section. Thanks for that information - I've noted a number of things that seem inconsistent, like needing rhel-instnum or not. mark _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
