Questions tagged [spacewalk]
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How can I move packages between Spacewalk channels?
How I can move a set of packages from one channel to another? I haven't found any option in the interface that'd let me do this.
My current workflow is to download the rpms, delete them from the channel (which appears to delete them from all of…

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Spacewalk client OSAD service SSL error
I have some problems with my freshly Spacewalk setup.
I have registered my test client, and installed osad service to avoid executing rhn_check.
But when I start osad service, I get the following error:
Starting osad: Not able to reconnect
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Spacewalk (satellite) activation refresh child channels on client
We have a (spacewalk) rhn satellite server running and several hundred machines registered with it with a few activation keys. Each of these keys have one or more child channels. We need to know how to 'refresh' the registration so that the clients…

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Easiest way to sync only package and dependencies in spacewalk?
From the web UI and the documentation, spacewalk seems to want to download everything in a given repo regardless of relevance, which isn't so bad if you use all / most of the packages within a repo, but which is intense overkill if only one or two…

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How can I create software groups in RHN Satellite?
I would like to be able to create software groups, so I can install a group of packages with yum groupinstall, e.g.
yum groupinstall oracle-packages
Does RHN Satellite support software groups?

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How to secure channels created with spacewalk-create-channel?
Does spacewalk-create-channel (RHN Satellite) create channels without security updates?
spacewalk-create-channel --user=username --password=password -v 5 -r Server -u U7 -a i386 --destChannel=rhel-i386-server-5.7 .N "rhel-i386-server-5.7"
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How to determine what CVE is back ported to what version of package?
I'm trying to determine what version of apache is backported for CVE-2021-40438. I'm very confused as to how to find out. Our spacewalk server has multiple apache versions of 2.4.37 from -10 to -56 and the specific VM is up to date with…

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Automate spacewalk server installation
I'm trying to automate spacewalk server deployment. I stuck at creating first user. Is there any way do it non-interactively, via commandline or api? RPC seems to be unavailable at this stage so I can't use spacecmd.
The goal is automatically create…

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