On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 10:48:43AM -0400, visinix the great wrote: > Hi List, > > I am at work moving my hosts over to using spacewalk to pick up updates, > and use for their software repositories. My question is how exactly does > the yum rhn plugin work? > > 1.) Does the yum rhn plugin dissallow the server from using the default > repo's found in /etc/yum.repos.d?
No, the repos/channels provided by Spacewalk via yum-rhn-plugin are added to those specified locally on the client. > 2.) I assume, but haven't tested yet, that I could always install from a > repo if I specify it with yum --enable=foo, is this correct? Yes. > 3.) How do you handle default repos, do you remove the files? Do you change > them to enabled=0? Either will work. > I'm working on using spacewalk to deploy systems via kickstart, and want to > remove the ability to update the OS / packages further than my current > spacewalk server deployment. If there is a root on that machine, they can always run rpm locally. -- Jan Pazdziora Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
