The software described in this documentation is either no longer supported or is in extended support.
Oracle recommends that you upgrade to a current supported release.
You can use the spacewalk-common-channels
utility in the spacewalk-utils package to
configure software channels that use the Oracle Linux yum server.
You can use this utility to configure the software channels,
repositories, GPG keys, and activation keys for Oracle Linux 5,
Oracle Linux 6, and Oracle Linux 7.
To list the available channels, use the --list option, for example:
# spacewalk-common-channels --list
Available channels:
...
oraclelinux5: i386, x86_64
oraclelinux5-addons: i386, x86_64
oraclelinux5-oracle-addons: i386, x86_64
oraclelinux5-spacewalk20-client: i386, x86_64
oraclelinux5-uek: i386, x86_64
oraclelinux5-unsupported: i386, x86_64
oraclelinux6: i386, x86_64
oraclelinux6-addons: i386, x86_64
oraclelinux6-mysql: i386, x86_64
oraclelinux6-playground: x86_64
oraclelinux6-spacewalk20-client: i386, x86_64
oraclelinux6-spacewalk20-server: x86_64
oraclelinux6-spacewalk22-client: i386, x86_64
oraclelinux6-spacewalk22-server: x86_64
oraclelinux6-uek: i386, x86_64
oraclelinux6-uek-r3: x86_64
oraclelinux7: x86_64
oraclelinux7-addons: x86_64
oraclelinux7-mysql55: x86_64
oraclelinux7-mysql56: x86_64
oraclelinux7-optional: x86_64
oraclelinux7-spacewalk22-client: x86_64
oraclelinux7-uek-r3: x86_64
...
Unlike ULN, the Oracle Linux yum server does not provide
patch channels for each update of an Oracle
Linux release. Instead,
spacewalk-common-channels configures the base
(parent) software channel to use the
public_ol
repository, which includes all packages for the entire release.
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Some ULN channels, such as those for DTrace userspace, Ksplice, and OFED, are not available on the Oracle Linux yum server.
For example, create the software channels for Oracle Linux 7 (x86_64):
# spacewalk-common-channels -v -u swadm -p swadm_passwd -a x86_64 -k unlimited 'oraclelinux7*'
Connecting to http://localhost/rpc/api
Base channel 'Oracle Linux 7 (x86_64)' - creating...
* Activation key 'oraclelinux7-x86_64' - creating...
* Child channel 'Oracle Linux 7 Addons (x86_64)' - creating...
** Activation key '1-oraclelinux7-x86_64' - adding child channel...
* Child channel 'Oracle Linux 7 MySQL 5.5 (x86_64)' - creating...
** Activation key '1-oraclelinux7-x86_64' - adding child channel...
* Child channel 'Oracle Linux 7 MySQL 5.6 (x86_64)' - creating...
** Activation key '1-oraclelinux7-x86_64' - adding child channel...
* Child channel 'Oracle Linux 7 Optional Packages (x86_64)' - creating...
** Activation key '1-oraclelinux7-x86_64' - adding child channel...
* Child channel 'Spacewalk 2.2 Client for Oracle Linux 7 (x86_64)' - creating...
** Activation key '1-oraclelinux7-x86_64' - adding child channel...
* Child channel 'Oracle Linux 7 UEK Release 3 (x86_64)' - creating...
** Activation key '1-oraclelinux7-x86_64' - adding child channel...
swadm and
swadm_passwd are the user name and
password of the Spacewalk administrator. The -k
unlimited option specifies that the command should
create an activation key with no limit on the number of servers
with which you can use it.
You can use either the Spacewalk web interface or spacecmd to display, modify, or delete the available channels, repositories, and activation keys:
Once you have set up the software channels and repositories, download the packages by synchronizing the software channels with the Oracle Linux yum server. See Section 2.6, “Synchronizing Software Channels”.