Thank you for the suggestion -- I will have a look at my test RHEL7 and RHEL6 servers that are registered with Red Hat, one with classic, the other with subscription manager and see what I can discover.
Robert Boyd Sr. Systems Engineer PeopleFluent p. 919-645-2972 | c. 919-306-4681 e. robert.b...@peoplefluent.com Visit: www.peoplefluent.com | Read: Peoplefluent Blog | Follow: @peoplefluent | Download: iPad App -----Original Message----- From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Paul Robert Marino Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2014 12:12 PM To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Mutli distro kickstart issue. Look at candlepin and subscription manager on a host registered with Red Hat its actually fairly obvious how to do it with Spacewalk 2.x. The reason I am not specifically telling any one how to do it is I just don't know if I would be violating any NDA's and or support agreements if I wrote a guide on how to do it. Also a possible alternative I havent had time to fully investigate is this https://github.com/splice/spacewalk-splice-tool It's used in the latest version of RHN Satellite 5.x. The one problem is that SAM is compiled against Jboss 6 and spacewalk is compiled against jpackage 5 so the cant be on the same host. Although in theory if spacewalk could be compiled against Jpackage 6 or even better Jboss 6 they should be able to run on the same host. Essentially what it does is it syncronizes Spacewalk with SAM is the stripped down core of Satellite 6 (its equivalent to a spacewalk proxy) so in theory it could allow you to have the best of both worlds. My only problem with it is for some reason it needs Mogodb which I find odd since both Spacewalk and SAM use PostgreSQL. On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Boyd, Robert <robert.b...@peoplefluent.com> wrote: > Paul Robert Marino, > > This sounds intriguing. > > You say you hesitate to write it out completely. I'm wondering if you could > give some hints as to how to start the "little research." > There are a couple of things you've mentioned before where you've said > something like this about issues I'm interested in. I could definitely use > some hints about how to pursue things like this. What tools/knowledge are > required to start? And where does one begin from? I find it's easy to wind > up chasing down many rabbit holes with little return other than learning > about a great many things I don't need much for the time spent without some > guidance. > > Thanks, > > Robert Boyd > Sr. Systems Engineer > PeopleFluent > p. 919-645-2972 | c. 919-306-4681 > e. robert.b...@peoplefluent.com > > > > > > Visit: www.peoplefluent.com | Read: Peoplefluent Blog | Follow: > @peoplefluent | Download: iPad App > > > -----Original Message----- > From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com > [mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Paul Robert > Marino > Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2014 1:57 PM > To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com > Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Mutli distro kickstart issue. > > ... > > Unfortunately the core API issue has never been fixed althouth the new method > of syncing erratas via the yum repo does not seem to be effected by this so > where possible try to use that method instead. the problem is CentOS hasn't > adopted this method and I'm not sure about Oracle. > RHEL its pretty easy now to get the erratas using the new method if you do a > little research although I hesitate to write it out for you completely. > > ... > > > > On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Canalichio, Kevin > <canalic...@jmail.metronaviation.com> wrote: >> I have set up my spacewalk server to have Redhat, Centos, and Oracle >> linux distros available for kickstart. >> >> When kickstarting I will get the following error: >> >> >> >> “ The file libart_lgpl-2.3.20-5.1.el6.x86_64 cannot be opened. This >> is due to a missing file, a corrupted package or corrupted media.” >> >> >> >> The problem occurs because the md5 checksums are different for the >> same package name in the each of the different distros. I read >> somewhere that the satellite server uses some sort of dedup or links >> to not have multiple copies of the same file, which seems to work >> fine for updates, but not so well for kickstarts. >> >> >> >> I can fix this problem by clearing out all three the repos and >> resyncing the one I want to kickstart. But it take a while for the repo to >> rsync. >> >> >> >> I have also found this bug report that no one seems to be working on >> http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=6977 which references this from >> the archive >> https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/2014-February/msg00048. >> html >> >> >> >> Has anyone else seen this, or have a better work around? >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Spacewalk-list mailing list >> Spacewalk-list@redhat.com >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list > > _______________________________________________ > Spacewalk-list mailing list > Spacewalk-list@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list > > _______________________________________________ > Spacewalk-list mailing list > Spacewalk-list@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
