2010/1/26 Marcus Moeller mail@marcus-moeller.de:
Hi again,
Let me import the sources into a shared setup, and we can workout a patchset that is needed. We can then target this for 5.5 inclusion if its considered worth doing and does not cause any issues.
I still ask myself why one would use the 'old' rhn tools from rhel to connect against Spacewalk instead of the current ones.
Until these are not in sync, inclusion of the rhel packages does not make much sense imho.
Best Regards Marcus
PS: To be paranoid: maybe RH is planning a migration path to 'upgrade' from CentOS to RHEL, which is the only reason I see atm why the tools should be integrated :) _______________________________________________ CentOS-devel mailing list CentOS-devel@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel
I have a growing spacewalk install for my centos systems to assist in management of them. Currently around 30 machines and when done should hit around 100-120... not a huge number but it helps significantly.
Given that to setup spacewalk in the first instance a user would need to make use of the non-client repo (possibly replicating it locally) and then create channels that sync from other upstream repos (or push own packages to them) to get proper functionality - ie the ability to view updated packages and push them out as required.... I honestly can't see much point in having the old RHEL5.X packages in Centos 5.X by default. Anyone that is implementing at this stage should have the competence to create a local yum repo from the client-tools spacewalk repo that they can use to install the client tools and register a system against their server - and if there were any bugs between spacewalk and the client tools they would likely be fixed faster in the client repo as used by the spacewalk team... doubly so in light of the time it takes for the redhat SRPMS to be cleaned up and generated for teh centos repositories.
As far as an 'upgrade path' from centos to RHEL upon recently asking this of our account manager (for a sizeable enterprise account) we were told quite clearly that such an action wouldn't be supported and RHEL systems they would provide support on going forwards would need to be built from scratch.