So, finally after so much trial and error here is what I've done to allow smooth integration of Debian 9 and Ubuntu 16.0 with spacewalk

Just to keep it simple

1. create channels: xenial-main + xenial-updates, xenial-security, xenial-universe

2. tricky part  syncing channels [ adding multi-arch header]:

#!/bin/bash

_BIN_PATH=/var/www/html/pub/spw_scripts
_URL_MAIN='http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial/main/binary-amd64'
_URL_SEC='http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial-security/main/binary-amd64'
_URL_UPD='http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial-updates/main/binary-amd64'
_URL_UNIV='http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial/universe/binary-amd64'
_PKG_MAIN=/var/cache/rhn/repodata/xenial-main
_PKG_SEC=/var/cache/rhn/repodata/xenial-security
_PKG_UPD=/var/cache/rhn/repodata/xenial-updates
_PKG_UNIV=/var/cache/rhn/repodata/xenial-universe
_USER=bugs
_PASS=bunny

$_BIN_PATH/spacewalk-debian-sync.pl  --url $_URL_MAIN --channel xenial-main        --username=$_USER  --password $_PASS $_BIN_PATH/spacewalk-debian-sync.pl  --url $_URL_SEC  --channel xenial-security     --username=$_USER  --password $_PASS $_BIN_PATH/spacewalk-debian-sync.pl  --url $_URL_UPD  --channel xenial-updates    --username=$_USER  --password $_PASS $_BIN_PATH/spacewalk-debian-sync.pl  --url $_URL_UNIV  --channel xenial-universe  --username=$_USER  --password $_PASS

s=180
trap 'echo "Ctrl-C detected."' 2
for (( i=$s ; i>0; i--));
        do
                echo -ne  "\rFinishing sync in: $i seconds\033[0K"; sleep 1
        done
echo -e "\nSync completed!"
trap 2
$_BIN_PATH/spacewalk-add-debian-multiarch-header.py $_PKG_MAIN/Packages  /tmp/xenial-main $_BIN_PATH/spacewalk-add-debian-multiarch-header.py $_PKG_SEC/Packages    /tmp/xenial-security $_BIN_PATH/spacewalk-add-debian-multiarch-header.py $_PKG_UPD/Packages   /tmp/xenial-updates $_BIN_PATH/spacewalk-add-debian-multiarch-header.py $_PKG_UNIV/Packages  /tmp/xenial-universe

                /bin/mv $_PKG_MAIN/Packages.new $_PKG_MAIN/Packages
                /bin/mv $_PKG_SEC/Packages.new $_PKG_SEC/Packages
                /bin/mv $_PKG_UPD/Packages.new $_PKG_UPD/Packages
                /bin/mv $_PKG_UNIV/Packages.new $_PKG_UNIV/Packages

                gzip < $_PKG_MAIN/Packages > $_PKG_MAIN/Packages.gz
                gzip < $_PKG_SEC/Packages > $_PKG_SEC/Packages.gz
                gzip < $_PKG_UPD/Packages > $_PKG_UPD/Packages.gz
                gzip < $_PKG_UNIV/Packages > $_PKG_UNIV/Packages.gz

3. client side  [ ubuntu/debian clients]

spw_srv=192.168.100.101

cat >/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50spacewalk<<FIX
#
# The configuration for apt-spacewalk
#
APT {
  Update {
        List-Refresh "true";
        Pre-Invoke {
            "/usr/lib/apt-spacewalk/pre_invoke.py";
        }
        Post-Invoke {
            "/bin/sed -rie 's/^Package: (cpp|guile-2.0|python(2.7|3)?)$/\0\nMulti-Arch: allowed/' /var/lib/apt/lists/${spw_srv}_dists_channels\:_xenial-main_binary-amd64_Packages";
        }
  }
};
DPkg::Post-Invoke {
    "[ ! -e /usr/lib/apt-spacewalk/post_invoke.py ] || /usr/lib/apt-spacewalk/post_invoke.py";
};
FIX
sed  -i "s|'main'|'xenial-main'|g" /usr/lib/apt-spacewalk/pre_invoke.py
perl -pi -e "s/type='deb'/type='deb [trusted=yes] '/g" /usr/lib/apt-spacewalk/pre_invoke.py

4. Now can perform apt-get update/upgrade w/o any issues after disabling /etc/apt/source.list


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