I'm currently using spacewalk to administer a Computer Science lab at a University. We use it for the CentOS servers and also the ~50 Fedora 10 lab computers.
Everything works great for managing updates, but I am looking for a way to keep a single profile of installed packages for the lab. It seems that if I use package profiles, I have to use all of the packages on a machine as a reference point. I can't do this because the machines are a mix if AMD/Intel with different graphics cards. Using a single profile like that would install large memory support kernels or graphics drivers that are not needed. Also I don't care what version of a package is installed. Basically I am trying to replicate the functionality of debian's package-sync through spacewalk. Does anyone have a solution for this problem? I would like to just have a single list of software that I can check against the machines and use to make sure they have all of the packages on that list are installed. Is this something I could maybe do through spacewalk api? Thanks, Kevin Arhelger University of Minnesota Morris Computer Science Lab Administrator _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list