[clug] ACSC Essential 8 for Linux - local package repositories

Bob Edwards bob at cs.anu.edu.au
Fri Apr 5 08:39:12 UTC 2019


On 5/4/19 6:58 pm, Chris Smart via linux wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Apr 2019, at 17:17, Bob Edwards via linux wrote:
>> On 31/3/19 4:02 pm, Stephen Hocking wrote:
>>> Using Red Hat Satellite, it's quite straight forward. There's a few
>>> white papers kicking around describing how to do it. Haven't really
>>> looked at the Debian/Ubuntu side of things.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for the tip on Red Hat Satellite, Stephen.
>>
>> Alas, I am looking for an open-source solution...
>>
> 
> In case it's helpful, Satellite 6 is Foreman, which I think supports Debian:
> 
> https://www.theforeman.org/
> 
> Satellite 5 is Spacewalk, which is still around:
> 
> https://spacewalkproject.github.io/
> 
> -c
> 

Thanks Chris.

Foreman looks quite interesting - I hadn't heard of it previously.

We use Salt a lot and Foreman supports Salt, so that looks promising.

cheers,
Bob Edwards.



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