Re: [Spacewalk-list] New spackewalk deployment

2014-09-07 Thread Paul Robert Marino
well first of all the spacewalk mailing list doesn't set the replyto field in the emails it relays for some reason so you can do a reply all. Using Oracle is fine if you have good DBA's just be aware you may need to do some additional testing whenever you upgrade. be warned form what I've heard it

Re: [Spacewalk-list] cobbler integration with kickstart variables

2014-09-07 Thread Dallas Graves
Thanks Jonathan, your suggestion to investigate Cheetah further was exactly what I was missing. I've been able to throw in some Python code into my kickstart file and by passing some variables into Cobbler via the --ksmeta switch, I've been able to achieve my goal of using a single default Kicksta

Re: [Spacewalk-list] New spackewalk deployment

2014-09-07 Thread Paul Robert Marino
Well the first piece of advice is to use an external PostgreSQL server not Oracle. Most of the users are migrating off Oracle and spacewalk runs quicker under PostgreSQL. Furthermore the PostgreSQL code is the main focus of development so much more through QA is being done on that code.I would sugg