[CentOS-devel] [RFE] subscription-manager in CentOS6

On 09/03/16 09:21, Baptiste Agasse wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I tried to speak about this to Johnny at the end of the last CentOS Dojo in Brussels, but he have to go. 
> 
> There is any chance that you to include subscription-manager in CentOS 6 ?
> 
> We use foreman/katello, all work out of the box for centos 7 but it's not easy to manage additional installation repos in foreman/katello to manage that in one generic kickstart template for our deployments (multiple DCs, with multiple repos mirrors per locations...).
> 
> As i see in the git repo of CentOS 7 [1], there is only few changes, like debranding. I see that redhat provides SRPMS for subscription-manager as well for RHEL6 [2] and versions of subscription-manager are are not so far from each other:
> 
> RHEL 7 / CentOS 7 : subscription-manager 1.15.9
> RHEL 6            : subscription-manager 1.14.10
> 
> I didn't take a look deeper at this time, but if there is any chance that you decide to include subscription-manager in CentOS 6 base repo and installation tree like in CentOS 7, i can take a look deeper to see if patches that are made for C7 are compatible with RHEL 6 subscription manager, and if not, backport them to c6.
> 
> Have a nice day.
> 
> Regards.
> 
> [1] https://git.centos.org/tree/rpms!subscription-manager.git/refs!heads!c7
> [2] ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Server/en/os/SRPMS/
> 


the main concern with SM was that it ships by default with a lot of
resources pointing at *.redhat.com - if we can somehow disable those, it
would make it easier to ship. I'll ping Johnny and see how he feels
about this as well.


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