I *just* got it all put together within the past week, so I haven’t automated anything yet. The working theory is that I can schedule mrepo pulls of all the repositories I need, then just have another cron job to push everything up there nightly. Mrepo even sends e-mails of any new packages it pulls down.
The downside to this approach is that I need double the disk space – one place to hold the packages I pull down from mrepo, and then the filesystem that contains /var/satellite. So far, it’s not an issue, but I could see it getting there. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 3:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] spacewalk and mrepo Greg, Does that work well? Is it easy to automate/script the mrepo ->rhnpush process? Are you administering RHEL boxes with Spacewalk then? TIA, -Eric ________________________________ From: "Wojtak, Greg" <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 2:24:48 PM Subject: RE: [Spacewalk-list] spacewalk and mrepo I am using mrepo to download the packages, then push them into spacewalk separately. I don’t believe there is any all-in-one solution to sync spacewalk from rhn, short of buying a satellite entitlement. I use mrepo to pull packages down, then rhnpush to get them into spacewalk. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 3:19 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] spacewalk and mrepo Marcus, Thanks for the info. I forgot to mention that I have mrepo working, but I was just wondering if the combination of mrepo and spacewalk would give me the basic functionality of downloading packages from RHN and pushing them to RHEL boxes. TIA, -Eric ________________________________ From: Marcus Moeller <[email protected]> To: Eric <[email protected]>; [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 2:11:30 PM Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] spacewalk and mrepo Dear Eric, > I was wondering if anyone had Spacewalk and mrepo working together to > manage/update RHEL Systems? > Unfortunately, RHN Satellite is not within our budget. > > I am thinking of implementing this combination since we have many RHEL > systems which do not have "Internet" access. > > Do you have any suggestions or caveats with regards to this type of setup? You will find some examples on the mrepo page. Brandon has also written a good tutorial, which can be found here: http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/mrepo_configuration.html Best Regards Marcus
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