On Thu, 4 Sep 2014 06:39:26 +1000 Avi Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > On 4 Sep 2014, at 2:11 am, Glen Collins <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I know Spacewalk is now capable of maintaining OUL but trying to > > get the rpm's from both vendors is confusing. I'm honestly not sure > > what to look for now as I have tried too many google searches and > > too many permutations of RHEL and OUL. If someone can just give a > > link to into it would be appreciated. > > I'm assuming you mean OL or Oracle Linux here? If so, combining both > RHEL and OL into a single Spacewalk instance is easy, but it'll > prevent you from getting support from one of the vendors, I suspect. > For example, if you have an existing Spacewalk 2.2 instance installed > from the Spacewalk repos, it supports updating from both the Oracle > Unbreakable Linux Network as well as the public-yum.oracle.com > repositories. However, you can't get support from Oracle for it. > > Likewise, if you were to use Spacewalk 2.0 provided by Oracle, you'd > get support from Oracle for the server and any Oracle Linux clients > you have connected to it, but we wouldn't support RHEL clients. > > Therefore, you just need to pick which scenario you prefer. > > Though, I didn't think you could connect Spacewalk directly to RHN > for updates. Doesn't that require a Satellite subscription? If so, > you would be running Satellite, not Spacewalk. And you'd get support > from Red Hat for the Satellite deployment. You can still sync the > Oracle Linux public-yum.oracle.com repos into Satellite, but there is > no ULN integration. I'd be happy to send you the ULN integration > script, but I'm not sure what that would do for your support with Red > Hat. :) > Spacewalk + mrepo works just fine to get Redhat updates into spacewalk. I don't think spacewalk is supported by redhat anyway, so I would just go ahead and go for it. At a client of mine, I implemented redhat, centos, EPEL and custom packages all in spacewalk, with their erratas. Franky _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
