spacewalk

basics

Installation https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToInstall
1. you must recompile selinux-policy with a newer version (on centos)
  1. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729521
2. use the find -exec loop to import the Base repo:
```
find . -type f -iname \*.rpm -exec echo "rpm: {}" \; -exec rhnpush --server localhost -u jfriar -p PASSWORD --channel centos6-x86_64 {} \;
```
3. a few edits in cobbler for using eth1 ip instead of eth0
4. need a dhcp server (haven't tried to use cobbler for this)
Kickstart https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToKickstartCobbler
1. edit /var/lib/cobbler/kickstarts/default.ks
2. run:
```
cobbler check
```
3. some dhcp configuration info https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/kickstartingLabNetworkingSetup
4. kickstart options http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart#Chapter_2._Kickstart_Options
5. cheetah, the cobbler kickstart templating engine https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/KickstartTemplating
Client setup https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/RegisteringClients
1. need to install some local rpms
2. need to import keys:
```
rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/Centos-*
```
3. add channel subscriptions in spacewalk for client

gpg stuff

gpg keys:
- CentOS: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/
- Spacewalk: http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/
- EPEL: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/

read a key:

gpg --quiet --with-fingerprint RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6 
pub  4096R/C105B9DE 2011-07-03 CentOS-6 Key (CentOS 6 Official Signing Key) <centos-6-key@centos.org>
      Key fingerprint = C1DA C52D 1664 E8A4 386D  BA43 0946 FCA2 C105 B9DE

GPG key id: C105B9DE

notes

server, linux

Table of Contents

spacewalk

basics

gpg stuff

notes