Re: [Spacewalk-list] Alternatives

2020-12-16 Thread Soham Chakraborty
I have used foreman as a provisioning system with good amount of success for non cloud based infrastructure. In that same vein, katello and pulp are the alternatives to consider if you are EL shop. Essentially foreman, pulp and katello are the new tools that are used if you dont want to spend mone

Re: [Spacewalk-list] compatibility of Spacewalk and RHEL 8

2019-03-27 Thread Soham Chakraborty
Nice. Good to know. I will check it out. On Wed, Mar 27, 2019, 18:15 Coffman, Anthony J wrote: > Spacewalk 2.9 includes support for synching and distributing RHEL 8 beta > content. See the release notes. > > > > --Tony > > > > > > *From:* spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto: > spacewalk-

Re: [Spacewalk-list] compatibility of Spacewalk and RHEL 8

2019-03-27 Thread Soham Chakraborty
There will be none. Red Hat has replaced spacewalk with katello which is a plugin of the foreman project. For RHEL8 you have the option of using katello or purchase satellite subscription. If you use katello be aware of subscription issues. I had problem in registering systems to katello with a p

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk and Oracle Linux

2018-03-24 Thread Soham Chakraborty
Avi, Is it possible to sync ULN repositories (which are behind Oracle customer login) to sync with spacewalk or any other repo syncing tool? On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 2:25 AM, Avi Miller wrote: > Hi, > > > > On 24 Mar 2018, at 7:47 am, Nicole Beck wrote: > > > > I want to use spacewalk to manage

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Error code 32

2018-03-23 Thread Soham Chakraborty
questions: No, yum info/yum search doesn't show the updated packages in the client. And the client is definitely subscribed to one of the channels that is providing the package. Thoughts? On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 1:55 PM, Michael Mraka wrote: > Soham Chakraborty: > > Hi all, >

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Error code 32

2018-03-13 Thread Soham Chakraborty
help would be much appreciated. @Michael, do you reckon this could be any way related to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1421674? Not as an end result but rather as a symptom? Thanks, On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 6:30 PM, Soham Chakraborty wrote: > Hi all, > > I faced an odd problem

[Spacewalk-list] errata_details not showing any output

2018-02-09 Thread Soham Chakraborty
Hi all, Following Michael Mraka's suggestion about using 'spacewalk-report' to generate reports, I am using the tool. So far I like it. However I am hitting a problem (unrelated to spacewalk-report) where I am not able to see details of the errata that I am supposed to apply in my patching window

[Spacewalk-list] Obtaining report of pending patches before upgrading

2018-02-02 Thread Soham Chakraborty
Hi all, I am looking to know whether/how you generate/obtain reports of what patches are going to be applied in one system or across a fleet of systems. Do you use any custom utility or script or something inbuilt within spacewalk? I have looked into openscap but I don't think it suits what I nee

Re: [Spacewalk-list] How to confirm that spacewalk is fetching updates (for mitigating meltdown bug)

2018-01-06 Thread Soham Chakraborty
he sync-stuff mainly > reposync.log and details of each channel in the subdirectory reposync. > > KR, > > Andreas Dijkman > > On 5 Jan 2018, at 19:55, Soham Chakraborty wrote: > > Hi, > > I was trying to sync my repositories (subscribed with Red Hat) to bring > t

[Spacewalk-list] How to confirm that spacewalk is fetching updates (for mitigating meltdown bug)

2018-01-05 Thread Soham Chakraborty
Hi, I was trying to sync my repositories (subscribed with Red Hat) to bring the patches for meltdown bug (possibly everyone on earth who works with computers know this by now). I manually issued a reposync on my repositories. However the updated kernel didn't reach the spacewalk server and reposy

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Use Spacewalk instead of Satellite for RHEL

2017-09-25 Thread Soham Chakraborty
Of course you can. All El derivatives can work with spacewalk. Few people use debian on Spacewalk as well but I have never tried that. Follow along the documentation and you should be good. Test on few systems before doing on entire fleet. Cheers On 25 Sep 2017 20:16, "Larry Clegg" wrote: > Gr

[Spacewalk-list] Error code 32

2017-08-15 Thread Soham Chakraborty
Hi all, I faced an odd problem today while trying to update my clients. I had several security patches and I got most of them installed but few of the updates refused to get installed and I could not install them manually as well. The error message from event logs of spacewalk say this: Client e

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk workflow

2017-04-23 Thread Soham Chakraborty
t; to your hosts. Also allowing you to control when to connect these > softteware channels to your hosts at "tiered" steps, with the assurance to > apply the same software/packages to the systems involved. > > > Hope this helps you > > > Rick > > > >

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk workflow

2017-04-21 Thread Soham Chakraborty
waldirio > Site: www.waldirio.com.br > Blog: blog.waldirio.com.br > LinkedIn: http://br.linkedin.com/pub/waldirio-pinheiro/22/b21/646 > PGP: www.waldirio.com.br/public.html > > On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 10:19 AM, Soham Chakraborty > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I

[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk workflow

2017-04-21 Thread Soham Chakraborty
Hi all, I am looking to know how others use spacewalk to do 'tier-ed' patching. For example, let's say that I have a group of servers in 'dev' tier and another group of servers in 'qa' tier and the rest being in 'prod' tier, how do I ensure that no *unvetted* patch goes into production? In other

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Errata for CentOS

2017-03-20 Thread Soham Chakraborty
Haven't used the script but no, spacewalk will be able to pull patches after RHN is shut down. This was discussed long back I think. Check out https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/2015-December/msg00100.html Let me know if I can help in any way. On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 7:28 PM, Stuart G

Re: [Spacewalk-list] RedHat Subscriptions Management deploying Spacewalk

2017-03-07 Thread Soham Chakraborty
Can you please elaborate on what you meant by managing subscriptions after registering the hosts (clients) on spacewalk server? I don't think I understand the statement correctly. Thanks, On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 10:50 PM, wrote: > Hi, > > I’m trying to configure a Spacewalk server to manage RedH

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Channel/repository deleted but packages remain.

2017-03-03 Thread Soham Chakraborty
Not to nitpick did you run with --remove? In my case having --remove worked. Probably stupid suggestion but... On 3 Mar 2017 19:51, "Dimitri Yioulos" wrote: Michael, Thanks for the response. I did run spacewalk-data-fsck. The channels were for rpmforge which, as we know, has ridden off into t

Re: [Spacewalk-list] jpackage.org?

2017-03-03 Thread Soham Chakraborty
This URL was floating in IRC yesterday: https://github.com/Pajinek/docker-spacewalk/commit/be8e764892dfe6013af3254d53f1b57a5bd9cb34 This has alternate baseurl. Thanks, On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 2:18 PM, Rob Sterenborg wrote: > Hi, > > I’ve used this repo file to install jpackage: > >

[Spacewalk-list] Future of spacewalk in light of satellite 6

2017-01-10 Thread Soham Chakraborty
Hi all, This is a generic question about future of spacewalk. Now that we know that Red Hat is shutting down RHN in July and moving to RHSM, I wanted to know whether that is going to affect spacewalk development/maintenance in any way? I know that spacewalk can be managed with RHSM and that is wh