Running Ubuntu Servers with Spacewalk. You probably have heard of Spacewalk, the systems management solution for RHEL Cent. OS and other Red. Hat based systems. Purple/v4/eb/2b/11/eb2b11df-3bfc-0e75-f1fc-d549d8abefbf/source/320x568bb.jpg' alt='Python 2.7.5 Source' title='Python 2.7.5 Source' />It provides and manages content package updates for all your servers along with some other features like kickstarting bootstrapping nodes, audits and some simple config management if you dont run Chef or Puppet or similar. However, did you know that you can meanwhile also fully manage your DebianUbuntu systems with Spacewalk Documentation on this is still sparse and you have to figure out certain things on your own. Read on after the jump how to completly setup and configure Spacewalk 2. Ubuntu clients. Including Errata This article only shows the DebianUbuntu specific things you need to know, a general Spacewalk installation needs to be done beforehand, see https fedorahosted. How. To. Install. Server. Create channels with Architecture set to amd. Yum Repository Checksum Type to SHA2. For Ubuntu 1. 2. 0. Precise Pangolin I name them precise Thats the parent channel of the followingprecise updatesprecise securityprecise backports. For Ubuntu 1. 4. 0. Trusty Tahr you would rather call them trustyEnable epel testing andyum update python debian. Index of python. 1. Nov2017 0226 1. 6. Nov2017 0226 10 15Oct2014 0335 100remoteusa 19Feb2017 0223 104 29Oct. JWpB1.png' alt='Python 2.7.5 Source' title='Python 2.7.5 Source' />In usrlibpython. PARTEXTS gz, bz. Meanwhile, after months of waiting, others my patches finally made it upstream. So make sure you get python debian 0. EPEL repo. Use https github. Spacewalks reposync cant handle APT repos yet. I meanwhile did my own Python version port. So get https github. Sync. py. Its faster than the Perl version. Motorcycle Vertical License Plate Legal In Louisiana. Its a drop in replacement for Steves script. Sync. py username admin passwordXXX channelprecise urlhttp de. Diana Ross And The Supremes Greatest Hits Rar Software'>Diana Ross And The Supremes Greatest Hits Rar Software. Sync. py username admin passwordXXX channelprecise updates urlhttp de. Sync. py username admin passwordXXX channelprecise security urlhttp us. Thats already it for the Server side. Now get some clients registered with Spacewalk. Clients. Ubuntu 1. For Ubuntu 1. 2. 0. I built them. Its better to build them for 1. You can easily build them by yourself on a 1. If all 5 packages are built, the debs are found at., now installdpkg i. Ubuntu 1. 4. 0. 4, 1. For these releases, the packages are available from universe repo but they are outdated so the above is suggested. All Ubuntu. Note Patching xmlrpclib. Since version 1. 8. We need to fix a bug in python XMLRPCLib usrlibpython. Type. Error, cannot marshal None unless allownone is enabled if not self. Type. Error, cannot marshal None unless allownone is enabledwritelt value lt nil lt value dispatchNone. The official home of the Python Programming Language. Type dumpnil. Now we can register with the Spacewalk serverapt get install python libxml. Urlhttp spacewalk. Python-4.png' alt='Python 2.7.5 Source' title='Python 2.7.5 Source' />XMLRPCYou can now use Spacewalk as central APT repositoryechodeb spacewalk spacewalk. XMLRPC channels precise main precise updates etcaptsources. So far everything could be googled together from different sources. Btw this article also applies for Debian systems. In the next upcoming article I will however show you how to get Errata automatically imported into Spacewalk from the Ubuntu security mailing list http www.