[ale] Satellite 6 opinions?

[Chuck Payne]

James,

If you have the resources download and install the latest version of
Spacewalk.

spacewalk.redhat.com

I am running Version 2.2, seem to still be the latest. It is much better.
They have improved hardware support, I am not sure you got that ugly
message when trying to kickstart an R720 or R620 that the hardware isn't
supported.

I am now running custom channels, I got our devops guys to build rpm that I
can install for them via spacewalk and I can track where stuff is install.

I am working on puppet, so far I don't see any puppet hooks in Spacewalk
2.2, so might be soon.

Chuck



On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> My understanding is 6 does everything 5 did plus. By dropping the custom
> code for puppet, the ability to manage multiple, different types of Linux
> systems emerged.
>
> But, I've not used it yet. I did tinker with Spacewalk (upstream version)
> while it was still version 5 so 6 is all new for me.
>
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 10:01 AM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Anyone have any opinions on Satellite 6 as opposed Satellite 5?
>>
>> I'm using 5 to kickstart systems with hosted kickstart profiles that use
>> a few kickstart snippets. I also distribute some system agnostic
>> configurations through a couple configuration channels, serve out local
>> copies of the EPEL (and other) RPM repositories, and serve out some
>> in-house RPM repositories.
>>
>> Is 6 capable of these tasks? I assume so, but it's not very clear from
>> the documentation. All I'm getting out of it is that the product has
>> completely changed, and is more along the lines of a new interface to
>> Puppet.
>>
>> --
>> James Sumners
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>>
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>> corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a
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