[CentOS-devel] rhn tools and subscription manager

[Pat Riehecky]

On 06/18/2014 11:17 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 06/18/2014 09:30 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>> On 06/18/2014 03:09 PM, Jason Pyeron wrote:
>>
>>> How, if any, does this impact the "most proper" way of converting from CentOS to
>>> RHEL on a live system.
>>>
>> how has this worked in the past? we dont ship rhn tools in CentOS-5/6
>> either.
>>
> My opinion on this is that we should take them out of the distro and IF
> someone like Spacewalk needs them then they can push modified versions
> as part of a SIG.  We could push a version that works with Spacewalk if
> we want .. but it might be better if they do it as then they can
> configure them the right way, etc.
>
> I mean, we CAN include them, but we haven't in the past, and people
> still use spacewalk.
>
>

Upstream spacewalk has:

http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/2.1-client/RHEL/6/x86_64/

containing the necessary bits for spacewalk integration on 5 and 6.

Pat

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