Hello Markus, good morning I'll try to help with some points.
1. Actually there isn't this feature on SW/Satellite 5 as well, btw in the foreman project we use OnDemand to repository, then is exactly what you are saying *download metadata and provide the info*, then when client request data, this will be downloaded. Maybe someone have another idea on SW but by default I believe be able. 2. I'm not sure if I follow you here ..., maybe a better description should be fine btw your customer should not be able to install directly from your SW server ? when you say *We have people who are on the road sometimes and they wouldn't be able to install anything without company network connection* so ... *nearby mirror* should be from your SW/Proxies I believe. Hope the info above help you. Please let us know more about item 2 then we can think about. Best ______________ Best Waldirio Skype: waldirio Site: www.waldirio.com.br LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/waldirio On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 11:18 AM, Markus Krause <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am currently evaluating Spacewalk 2.8 as we plan to roll out a set of > Fedora28 laptop clients to a group of developers. Users will have > administrative privileges, but we want to audit the systems and be able to > support people with keeping their systems up to date or push common config > updates. > > I so far love the Spacewalk concept, but there are 2 major points that > confuse > me and seem to be kind of a deal-breaker. I hope you can clarify: > > 1) How to use external repo URLs without syncing the whole thing? > It confuses me a lot. You create a software channel, create a repo from a > URL > and then instead of just taking the metainfo and provide the package info, > there seems to be no way around syncing the whole thing again onto the > spacewalk machine?! > I do not want that. We have a self-maintained yum repo for internal self- > packaged stuff and other than that we use the official mirrors, no matter > if > Centos7 or Fedora. There are so many good mirrors, I do not see a point in > mirroring the base repos again. (Fedora has like 50k packages, that's a > major > amount of wasted storage) Also our company repo is not exactly small, I do > not > want another copy apart from the backup. > > 2) Even if was to mirror the repos, how so I organise coexistence with the > official one enabled on the systems? I do not want to disable these. We > have > people who are on the road sometimes and they wouldn't be able to install > anything without company network connection. I want them to be able to use > a > nearby mirror whereever they are. > How would one manage this? > > Looking forward to your suggestions! > > > _______________________________________________ > Spacewalk-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list >
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