[Spacewalk-list] 2 small questions

[Justin Sherrill]

Michiel van Es wrote:
> Hi I got 2 questions:
> 
> 1)
> I have a new spacewalk server where I have a main centos 5 i386 channel
> and below the main channel a epel repo for centos 5.
> Whenever I subscribe a node to the CentoS 5 main channel, it
> automatically inherits it;s child : the epel repository.
> How can I disable this feature or whay shoulde be done to let nodes only
> subsribe to the main centos 5 channel but not it's child channels?
> 

By default a system won't be auto-subscribed to the child channel.  Are
you sure you don't have the child channel specified in the activation
key you are registering with?

Also make sure you don't have an activation key set to be universal default.

> 2)
> Is it possible to use yum priorities through spacewalk?
> So you can say that the main channel packages always overrule the child
> packages?
> Or must this be done through the client's yum priorties package?

this doesn't currently work.  There is a bugzilla open on it though:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515720

-Justin



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