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 :-) -- -- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]