[rhn-users] Strange application of an errata today

[Clifford Perry]

inode0 wrote:
> I'm not sure whether this is a hosted or proxy issue and I'm not sure
> if it is operator error or something else that caused it. We have a
> hosted environment running a current release proxy server with custom
> channels. A product enhancement errata was released for some of those
> custom channels a couple of days ago and today it was scheduled for
> every system subscribed to the pertinent channels (or so it seems at a
> glance).
I assume you are talking about Red Hat Errata, and not Custom Errata.

>
> Question 1: Should this errata be scheduled for machines which don't
> have any relevant package installed? It was but this seems silly. They
> picked it up and failed to install it harmlessly.
No - not by default.
>
> Question 2: Should it be scheduled for systems with auto errata update
> set to no? It was. I can't tell how the scheduling is done, it is
> listed as (none).
>
No. (none) is normally used by RHN when auto-update is kicking in, 
rather than a user logging in to schedule a task, which will then list 
the user.

> Question 3: Should systems with this errata scheduled but which have
> auto errata updates set to no pick up the package and install it when
> doing the next rhn_check? They did. This caused major grief as it
> broke openAFS in this case and it seems to me that this should not
> have happened.
Yes.

Regards,
Cliff.
>
> Can anyone shed any light on any of this for me? It has been an
> immensely long week and I'm exhausted so maybe I'm not thinking too
> clearly at the moment.
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
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