On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Karanbir Singh wrote:
On 10/02/10 21:55, Dag Wieers wrote:
Could we please wait to hear this confirmed by someone from the Spacewalk development community ? You may or may not know that what Red Hat ships and is called Red Hat Network Satellite, is in fact using spacewalk packages, and a seperate RHN package that rebrands Spacewalk.
This is sort of my concern as well. But then I dont use spacewalk and would really like to hear from Miroslav once on the issue.
Identical to what I said to Marcus. We know everyone's viewpoint now.
In my opinion, if CentOS wants to be compatible with RHEL, it needs to be compatible even in the parts that may or may not be useful to its users.
sure, but then the reason why rhn tools were taken out of the distro in CentOS-3, 4 and 5 is not because its not useful to the users, its because it can and did cause real issues to the users and to Red Hat. There were instances were anecdotal evidence suggested hundreds of thousands of people hitting rhn who didnt even have a rhel install.
Karanbir, that has been explained now at least three times. There was a reason why shipping the RHN stuff was useless. The situation is now different, and we are re-evaluating.
However, given that those issues can be addressed and the rhn tools in centos can be patched against the 'concerns' I'm quite happy to consider putting them back in if it helps people with spacewalk ( and potentially other tools )
I know. I thought we weren't looping anymore, guess I was wrong :-)