EPEL RPMs will not overwrite or conflict with RHEL packages. I can't speak for RPMForge.
Nothing in the Spacewalk/RHN Satellite logic prevents packages in a child channel overwriting or replacing packages in the base channel. For example, the Fastrak channel can do this. CC On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Jet Wilda <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > > > Please excuse my ignorance but I still do not understand > something. I get how to populate the channels in the Spacewalk server. > What I do not understand is how you prevent packages from EPEL or RpmForge > from overwriting base OS packages on the workstation that pulls its updates > (yum update) from the Spacewalk server. Does the fact that they are child > channels automatically make it so they won’t step on the top base channel? > Thanks again for answering my questions and being so patient with me as I > try to understand. > > > > Thanks, > > ~Jet > > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marco Giunta > Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 4:08 AM > > > > On -28163-01--10 20:59, Jet Wilda wrote: > > Hi, > > > > So then your workstations have the spacewalk server and your > local yum repository setup to get RPMs from. Am I understanding that > correctly? > > No, my workstations have only spacewalk repository by rhnplugin > > > Or how do the work stations get something from say EPEL that isn’t setup > via it’s activation key channels? > > In my spacewalk server I have a channel for every different repository: > Centos base, updates, extras, Epel, Rpmforge, Karan , Spacewalk-client and > another with my personal rpms. Every night, a cron script, sync all > repositories from external source with 'reposync -l bla bla bla ' ('-l' flag > = enable yum plugin support) to a local directories on my spacewalk server; > in this way I manage 'priority plugin'. Then, same script, sync my local > mirrors with spacewalk channels (spacewalk-repo-sync bla bla bla) > > My activation keys have as base channel, CentOS Base and as child channels, > all other channels. So, with 'yum install bla bla' I can install a rpm > belong to Epel, from my spacewalk server ... > > Marco > > > > > > Thanks, > > ~Jet > > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marco Giunta > Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 2:41 AM > > > > Hi, > workstations are connected to spacewalk server repository by 'rhnplugin'; I > think you can enable or disable a channel modifing > '/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/rhnplugin.conf': > > /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/rhnplugin.conf > > [main] > enabled = 1 > gpgcheck = 1 > > # You can specify options per channel, e.g.: > # > #[rhel-i386-server-5] > #enabled = 1 > # > #[some-unsigned-custom-channel] > #gpgcheck = 0 > > But you cannot manage priority, AFAIK. I manage it in this way: > > - first, I sync external repositories (centos update, extras, rpmforge, epel > and karan) with 'reposync -l bla bla bla ' ('-l' flag = enable yum plugin > support) to a local directories on my spacewalk server > -then I sync my local mirrors with spacewalk channels (spacewalk-repo-sync > bla bla bla) > > Marco > > > > On -28163-01--10 20:59, Jet Wilda wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I’m trying to understand the relationship of the files in > /etc/yum.repos.d/*.rep once a system is configured to sync against the > spacewalk server. Are those files not used at all once the system is using > spacewalk? If not is there a place that you can configure the repo settings > like priority, enabled, etc? > > > > Thanks, > > ~Jet > > > -- > > ----------------------------------- > > |Marco Giunta - SISSA Computer Staff| > > |Via Bonomea, 265 | > > |34136 - Trieste, Italy | > > |Tel: +39-40-3787-503 | > > |Fax: +39-040-3787-528 | > > |e-mail: giunta AT sissa.it | > > ----------------------------------- > > -- > > ----------------------------------- > > |Marco Giunta - SISSA Computer Staff| > > |Via Bonomea, 265 | > > |34136 - Trieste, Italy | > > |Tel: +39-40-3787-503 | > > |Fax: +39-040-3787-528 | > > |e-mail: giunta AT sissa.it | > > ----------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > Spacewalk-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list > -- RHCE#805007969328369 _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
