Hi Chuck, I use Spacewalk to manage a couple of opensuse 12.1 machines. Here's what I've got setup, using 32bit as the example: Parent Channel:
Channel Name: opensuse12.1-i586 Channel Label: opensuse12.1-32bit Parent Channel: (none) Yum Repository Checksum Type: sha1 Architecture: IA-32 Update channel (note: I have two child channels, just showing the update channel here): Channel Name: opensuse12.1-i586-updates Channel Label: opensuse12.1-32bit-updates Parent Channel: opensuse12.1-i586 Yum Repository Checksum Type: sha1 Architecture: IA-32 Summary: opensuse12.1 32bit update channel Repo for the update channel: Repo label: opensuse12.1-32bit-updates-repo Repo URL: http://download.opensuse.org/update/12.1/ To sync the channel, I created a script that I schedule via cron: [root@taeps001 ~]# cat /usr/local/bin/sync-opensuse12-32.sh #!/bin/bash /usr/bin/spacewalk-repo-sync --channel opensuse12.1-32bit-updates --type yum When the sync runs, I get a log of messages that look like this: Package arch x86_64 incompatible with channel opensuse12.1-32bit-updates You need not worry about them, opensuse places both i586 and x86_64 rpms in the same remote repository. Spacewalk will receive them, but since I'm are trying to sync a 32 bit channel (ia-32), the x86_64 packages just exist in "limbo". Going to "Manage Software Packages" and in the Channel field, select "packages with no channels", the x86_64 packages will display. If you create an opensuse x86_64 channel and run a sync, these "limbo" packages get pushed into the x86_64 channel. At least, that what it appears to do. On the opensuse machine, I just followed these procedures: https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/RegisteringClients. The machines don't have internet access, so I manually downloaded the spacewalk-client packages and installed them. The opensuse client packages can be found here: baseurl=http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/1.7/openSUSE_12.1/ Hope this helps. Alan -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of themaster001 Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 9:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Spacewalk-list] [spacewalk-list] openSUSE Guys, I am looking on how to set up openSUSE on my spacewalk server. I have googled and I found the SuSE product base on spacewalk, but I want to set up openSUSE on spacewalk. Also, how stable is Debian, is there a good how to on it. Thanks, Chuck _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
