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

2010-05-21 Thread Mike Hanby
ide of spacewalk would be great :-) -Original Message- From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Daniel Wittenberg Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 11:32 AM To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Assigning packages to a group Th

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] Assigning packages to a group

2010-05-21 Thread Mike Hanby
t: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Assigning packages to a group 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 le

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] 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] 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] 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

[Spacewalk-list] Assigning packages to a group

2010-05-20 Thread 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 rpm. So, assume I then register a n