I always include the spacewalk clients in a child repo of my base channels then include it in my kickstarts. Then I can view the kickstart and pick out the URI‎ yum has an option to install using an adhock yumrepo. Also you may not be aware of this but spacewalk generates a boilerplate registration script for you in the public directory for apache you can use as a template to modify into your own custom registration script.
Additionally yum and the rpm command can install packages over a network by specifying the URI as the package name.

From: Jason Calafiore
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 17:51
Subject: [Spacewalk-list] Registering Offline servers to Spacewalk

Hi All,
 I am trying to figure out a an easy to register servers that are already created and offline without have to reach out to the internet to get the necessary packages.

The only way I could do this was to do the following below by creating a yum repo with the necessary packages and then on a client server configure a .repo file that get the necessary packages. 

Is there any easier way to do this? I would think spacewalk would have an easy way to register clients especially offline servers. I had asked this before and someone suggested a scripts on github, but couldn't figure it out.

Thanks,
Jason


Create Local Repo on the spacewalk Server

 

mkdir /var/www/html/pub/spacewalk-client

 

cd /var/www/html/pub/spacewalk-client

 

repotrack -a x86_64 -p /var/www/html/pub/spacewalk-client rhn-client-tools rhn-check rhn-setup rhnsd m2crypto yum-rhn-plugin

 

rm *i686* -f

 

wget http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.3-client/RHEL/7/x86_64/spacewalk-client-repo-2.3-2.el7.noarch.rpm

wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

 

creapterepo /var/www/html/pub/spacewalk-client

 

 

Register Server to Spacewalk

 

vi/etc/yum.repos.d/spacewalk-local.repo

 

[spacewalk-local-install-repo]

name=Spacewalk Client Install

baseurl=http://spacewalk-server.com/pub/spacewalk-client

gpgcheck=0

gpgkey=

enabled=1

 

Disable other repos in /yum.repos.d

 

yum install rhn-client-tools rhn-check rhn-setup rhnsd m2crypto yum-rhn-plugin

 

# rpm -Uvh http://spacewalk-server.com/pub/rhn-org-trusted-ssl-cert-1.0-1.noarch.rpm

 

 

 

  rhnreg_ks --serverUrl=https://spacewalk-server.com/XMLRPC --sslCACert=/usr/share/rhn/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT --activationkey=1-centos-server-7


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