In Spacewalk you can only tie one RPM GPG key to a software channel, so syncing 
in RPM packages from various sources signed with different RPM GPG keys isn’t 
recommended. This can be circumvented by resigning all RPM packages with your 
own RPM GPG key before syncing them to Spacewalk. But then you will have to 
download the RPM packages somewhere before resigning them.
This is why a 1:1 relationship is most convenient, one repo (one RPM GPG key) 
to one Spacewalk software channel.
It’s easy to subscribe a host to a new channel in the GUI, can also be done on 
command line.

So if you have to add a new repo with RPM packages in the future:

1.       Create a new software channel in Spacewalk, a child channel to the 
base channel to which the host is subscribed.

2.       Configure the software channel using the repo’s RPM GPG key

3.       Sync the RPMs in the repo into the software channel.

4.       Subscribe the host to the new software channel

5.       Install the RPMs on the host

I hope this help you.

Best regards

Frank Mikkelsen Blohmé
Axis Communications AB – IT Group
Sweden, Lund


Hi!, isn't it easier to subscribe a server to one channel and add in the future 
the needed repositories?, that way you don't have to touch that node in the 
future (hmm, maybe rhel nodes would need GPG Keys for package from a new 
repository :s)

I'm trying to understand the channel/repo relationship to cover the most common 
use cases...

Regards,


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