Re: [Spacewalk-list] Assigning packages to a group

2010-05-21 Thread Mike Hanby
So far as multiple users editing configurations, not really other than using group permissions or ACL on the puppet manifests. I keep all of my puppet configuration files in subversion so that we can back out any changes that don't work :-) Regarding the group package assignment, here's what I

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Assigning packages to a group

2010-05-21 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
There are a couple web gui's for puppet as well, I've been playing around with them but don't have the URL's handy at the moment, but that might work too ? Dan On May 21, 2010, at 11:27 AM, Edward Simmonds wrote: > Mike Hanby wrote: >> I'm enjoying the discussion so far. >> We handle this type

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Assigning packages to a group

2010-05-21 Thread Edward Simmonds
Mike Hanby wrote: I'm enjoying the discussion so far. We handle this type of scenario using Puppet. The machines get the packages and updates from Spacewalk with Puppet telling them which packages to get and whether or not they should always be at the latest version. Perhaps this capability c

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Detecting KVM Fully Virtualised systems

2010-05-21 Thread James Hogarth
On 21 May 2010 16:27, James Hogarth wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm in the process of converting some VMware guests into KVM guests at > the moment. > > These guests were already managed under spacewalk but as they were > vmware machines they were considered normal systems. > > A freshly built system usi

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Assigning packages to a group

2010-05-21 Thread Mike Hanby
I'm enjoying the discussion so far. We handle this type of scenario using Puppet. The machines get the packages and updates from Spacewalk with Puppet telling them which packages to get and whether or not they should always be at the latest version. Perhaps this capability could be part of the

[Spacewalk-list] Detecting KVM Fully Virtualised systems

2010-05-21 Thread James Hogarth
Hi all, I'm in the process of converting some VMware guests into KVM guests at the moment. These guests were already managed under spacewalk but as they were vmware machines they were considered normal systems. A freshly built system using a kickstart marked as a kvm virtual guest shows after bu

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Assigning packages to a group

2010-05-21 Thread Edward Simmonds
John Hodrien wrote: On Fri, 21 May 2010, Colin Coe wrote: I'd use the activation key as well. Have a group gets you updates, but it doesn't get you additions. So you end up having to add package X to the activation key, and doing an install to all machines in the group. It'd be quite nice

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk Proxy misbehving with metadata....

2010-05-21 Thread Miroslav Suchý
On 05/21/2010 01:50 PM, James Hogarth wrote: 2010/5/21 Miroslav Suchý: On 05/21/2010 12:46 PM, Miroslav Suchý wrote: I'm not sure if server send for repodata Last-Modified header. I had to check it, but I doubt it is send. I was wrong. Server *send* Last-Modified header. So we can lower tha

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk Proxy misbehving with metadata....

2010-05-21 Thread James Hogarth
2010/5/21 Miroslav Suchý : > On 05/21/2010 12:46 PM, Miroslav Suchý wrote: >> >> I'm not sure if server send for repodata Last-Modified header. I had to >> check it, but I doubt it is send. > > I was wrong. Server *send*  Last-Modified header. > So we can lower that percent. > > -- > Miroslav Suchy

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk Proxy misbehving with metadata....

2010-05-21 Thread Miroslav Suchý
On 05/21/2010 12:46 PM, Miroslav Suchý wrote: I'm not sure if server send for repodata Last-Modified header. I had to check it, but I doubt it is send. I was wrong. Server *send* Last-Modified header. So we can lower that percent. -- Miroslav Suchy Red Hat Satellite Engineering _

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Error on provisioning of VM on kvm system

2010-05-21 Thread James Hogarth
On 21 May 2010 12:41, Milan Zazrivec wrote: > On Friday 21 May 2010 12:08:19 James Hogarth wrote: >> On 21 May 2010 10:45, Milan Zazrivec wrote: >> > On Friday 21 May 2010 11:25:26 James Hogarth wrote: >> >> On 21 May 2010 10:21, Milan Zazrivec wrote: >> >> > On Friday 21 May 2010 11:05:08 James

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Error on provisioning of VM on kvm system

2010-05-21 Thread Milan Zazrivec
On Friday 21 May 2010 12:08:19 James Hogarth wrote: > On 21 May 2010 10:45, Milan Zazrivec wrote: > > On Friday 21 May 2010 11:25:26 James Hogarth wrote: > >> On 21 May 2010 10:21, Milan Zazrivec wrote: > >> > On Friday 21 May 2010 11:05:08 James Hogarth wrote: > >> >> On 20 May 2010 10:32, James

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Assigning packages to a group

2010-05-21 Thread Colin Coe
Hmm, ISWYM. My take on this is that groups is the wrong place to do this. For example, at a previous site we had groups for distro version (RHEL3,4&5), arch (i386, x86_64) and role (workstation, HPC node, server). All machines were in at least these groups. My workstation was in the workstation,

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Assigning packages to a group

2010-05-21 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 21 May 2010, Colin Coe wrote: Can you not have a software channel with the alpine RPM and subscribe 'Group A' systems to said software channel? That way they'll get updates to the package as well. I'd use the activation key as well. Have a group gets you updates, but it doesn't get y

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Assigning packages to a group

2010-05-21 Thread Colin Coe
Can you not have a software channel with the alpine RPM and subscribe 'Group A' systems to said software channel? That way they'll get updates to the package as well. I'd use the activation key as well. CC On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 6:43 PM, John Hodrien wrote: > On Fri, 21 May 2010, Benedetto Va

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk Proxy misbehving with metadata....

2010-05-21 Thread Miroslav Suchý
On 05/21/2010 11:23 AM, James Hogarth wrote: 2010/5/21 James Hogarth: 2010/5/21 Miroslav Suchý: On 05/20/2010 03:46 PM, James Hogarth wrote: up until I get in the office tomorrow and can pull some logs to get a better picture but putting it out there now in case anyone sees similar Sin

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Assigning packages to a group

2010-05-21 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 21 May 2010, Benedetto Vassallo wrote: Def. Quota Edward Simmonds : I must be missing something, but here's what I need to do: I need to be able to register a client with Spacewalk, assign it to a group, and have a set of packages assigned to the group. For example, let's say I wa

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Error on provisioning of VM on kvm system

2010-05-21 Thread James Hogarth
On 21 May 2010 10:45, Milan Zazrivec wrote: > On Friday 21 May 2010 11:25:26 James Hogarth wrote: >> On 21 May 2010 10:21, Milan Zazrivec wrote: >> > On Friday 21 May 2010 11:05:08 James Hogarth wrote: >> >> On 20 May 2010 10:32, James Hogarth wrote: >> >> > On 20 May 2010 09:50, Milan Zazrivec

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Assigning packages to a group

2010-05-21 Thread Benedetto Vassallo
Def. Quota Edward Simmonds : I must be missing something, but here's what I need to do: I need to be able to register a client with Spacewalk, assign it to a group, and have a set of packages assigned to the group. For example, let's say I want all members of "Group A" to get the alpine

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Error on provisioning of VM on kvm system

2010-05-21 Thread Milan Zazrivec
On Friday 21 May 2010 11:25:26 James Hogarth wrote: > On 21 May 2010 10:21, Milan Zazrivec wrote: > > On Friday 21 May 2010 11:05:08 James Hogarth wrote: > >> On 20 May 2010 10:32, James Hogarth wrote: > >> > On 20 May 2010 09:50, Milan Zazrivec wrote: > >> >> On Wednesday 19 May 2010 23:32:06 J

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Error on provisioning of VM on kvm system

2010-05-21 Thread James Hogarth
On 21 May 2010 10:21, Milan Zazrivec wrote: > On Friday 21 May 2010 11:05:08 James Hogarth wrote: >> On 20 May 2010 10:32, James Hogarth wrote: >> > On 20 May 2010 09:50, Milan Zazrivec wrote: >> >> On Wednesday 19 May 2010 23:32:06 James Hogarth wrote: >> >>> KVM host is fully updated Centos 5.

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Error on provisioning of VM on kvm system

2010-05-21 Thread Milan Zazrivec
On Friday 21 May 2010 11:05:08 James Hogarth wrote: > On 20 May 2010 10:32, James Hogarth wrote: > > On 20 May 2010 09:50, Milan Zazrivec wrote: > >> On Wednesday 19 May 2010 23:32:06 James Hogarth wrote: > >>> KVM host is fully updated Centos 5.5 > >>> > >>> Spacewalk instance is a fully update

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Package update weirdness

2010-05-21 Thread David Nutter
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 05:24:18PM +1000, McLeod, Matt wrote: > I'm running 0.8 on CentOS 5.4 with Oracle XE. The database doesn't seem > to have maxed out yet (it's at ~3.3GB) and I'm not getting anything that > looks like an error message. > > Ever since the daily spacewalk-sync cron job update

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Error on provisioning of VM on kvm system

2010-05-21 Thread James Hogarth
On 20 May 2010 10:32, James Hogarth wrote: > On 20 May 2010 09:50, Milan Zazrivec wrote: >> On Wednesday 19 May 2010 23:32:06 James Hogarth wrote: >>> KVM host is fully updated Centos 5.5 >>> >>> Spacewalk instance is a fully updated spacewalk 1.0 (with cobbler >>> 1.6.6 not 2.0.3) on centos 5.5

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Package update weirdness

2010-05-21 Thread James Hogarth
On 21 May 2010 08:24, McLeod, Matt wrote: > I'm running 0.8 on CentOS 5.4 with Oracle XE.  The database doesn't seem > to have maxed out yet (it's at ~3.3GB) and I'm not getting anything that > looks like an error message. > > Ever since the daily spacewalk-sync cron job updated the CentOS 5 base

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk Proxy misbehving with metadata....

2010-05-21 Thread Miroslav Suchý
On 05/20/2010 03:46 PM, James Hogarth wrote: up until I get in the office tomorrow and can pull some logs to get a better picture but putting it out there now in case anyone sees similar Since upgrading to spacewalk 1.0 it has become a much more common occurrence to find clients on the far

[Spacewalk-list] Package update weirdness

2010-05-21 Thread McLeod, Matt
I'm running 0.8 on CentOS 5.4 with Oracle XE. The database doesn't seem to have maxed out yet (it's at ~3.3GB) and I'm not getting anything that looks like an error message. Ever since the daily spacewalk-sync cron job updated the CentOS 5 base channels to 5.5 I've been seeing unexpected behavior