Hello,
I went through similar circumstances. I can't give you a step-by-step-guide but
a hint of things I did to get the client-tools to my 'offline' Clients.
#1 you have to keep the packages separate for each distribution/version just to
avoid yum messing up.
So create Distro-folders in your Apache-Web folder /var/www/html/
#2 write a script to download the client tools from the spacewalkproject. You
can use e.g. 'wget' to get the folder(s) content. execute this script on your
spacewalk-server
#3 create an apache vhost-config file /etc/httpd/conf.d/* with matching
VirtualHosts and <Directory>-tags so that you can access one of the folders via
URL from the client.
#4 add a http(s) Repo to your Client /yum/repos.d/ and link it to the URL of
your added folders/VirtualHosts (you don't need to write a whole new file. Copy
an existing file and manipulate name and URL)
There you go,
Regards,
Fabian Bosch
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Betreff: [Spacewalk-list] Installing Spacewalk Client Tools without internet
access
I am in sort of a catch-22 in regards to our Spacewalk clients. We setup a
Spacewalk server in order to deploy OS updates to CentOS clients specifically
because the clients don't have internet access by default. However, we can't
register our clients to the new Spacewalk server because they require the
Spacewalk Client Tools to be installed first, which in turn requires internet
access.
This is the step that I'm currently unable to do on my clients:
# rpm -Uvh
http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.3-client/RHEL/6/x86_64/spacewalk-client-repo-2.3-2.el6.noarch.rpm
...which is required in order to do this:
# yum install rhn-client-tools rhn-check rhn-setup rhnsd m2crypto yum-rhn-plugin
My thought was that I'd like to setup an internal repo of
http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/ or better yet just
http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/latest-client/RHEL/ (all of our clients are
CentOS only) on our spacewalk server and then create/modify the repo file on
the clients to point to the internal repo. I have Googled my heart out in
regards to reposync/createrepo, but I haven't been able to sort it out yet.
I'd like some guidance in terms of (1) creating and syncing the repo on my
spacewalk server and (2) how to create the repo file on the clients to be able
to do the "yum install rhn-client-tools rhn-check rhn-setup rhnsd m2crypto
yum-rhn-plugin" and have it be smart enough to grab the files from the right
RHEL version and arch.
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