[COLUG] Does anyone here use RH's Spacewalk

[Warner Moore]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: colug432-bounces at colug.net 
> [mailto:colug432-bounces at colug.net] On Behalf Of R P Herrold
> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 1:38 PM
> To: Central OH Linux User Group
> Subject: [COLUG] Does anyone here use RH's Spacewalk
> 
> On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Tom Hanlon wrote:
> 
> > Colug,
> >
> > Just curious if anyone who manages a bunch of RH or CentOS 
> machines has 
> > investigated spacewalk.
> >
> > http://www.redhat.com/spacewalk/
> 
> The product it is the 'liberation of' (the rhn satellite 
> server) requires an Oracle backend, and uses stored Oracle 
> PL/SQL procedures; an effort to get a second backend in, 
> (pqsql) is being thrashed out.  MySQL, and sqlite have been 
> discussed as well.
> 
> [for many years, a sad reason the RHN server side had not been 
> released (and still is not, although this looks 'finnessable', 
> with the satellite code released), was that the dependency 
> resolution was buind done in PL/SQL ... ]
> 
> The development leads are not (presently) willing to move the 
> stored procedures logc out into the supporunding code, as 
> there are python, perl, and some other, clients around this 
> which would require some code maintenance overhead (it seems)

	I was looking at this..  I really like my source build standards
using shellscripts though.

	Oracle's definitely a downside, that's added cost.

	If the server side isn't released, you would still have to buy
something then?


Warner