[Spacewalk-list] Architecture question

[Pierre Casenove]

Thanks for these useful links!
There is one thing I don't understand: In the base channel you have 5.6
packages. In the update channel, with your solution, do you only have the
latest version released by redhat of each package or do you have all the
version released since rhel 5.6?
In the first case, I can see clearly the advantage, in the second one, why
don't you just put everything in the base channel?

Another question, on the configuration channels: did you create many
channels? just one? by arch?

Your experience is more than useful for me!

Thanks,

Pierre


2011/8/5 Martin Eggen <mare at steria.no>

>  Hi,****
>
> correct, my base channel is still 5.6 and the updates channel receives
> patches (now at 5.7). Mrepo runs daily (nightly), but I do not rebuild ISOs.
> ****
>
> Documentation for setting up mrepo with RHN is here:
> https://github.com/dagwieers/mrepo/blob/master/docs/redhat-network.txt****
>
> ** **
>
> Also check
> https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/browser/scripts/clone-errata/<https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/browser/scripts/clone-errata/rhn-clone-errata.py>  for
> cloning RHN errata into your (Base) channel with rhn-clone-errata.py. ****
>
> ** **
>
> You need to edit chanMap (ca line 455) to match your SPW channel name, but
> apart from that it was not too much work setting up. I did one errata clone
> with –begin-date=<RHEL 5.6 release date> and then I run it nightly with
> –-begin-date=<yesterday> to clone new erratas. I only use rhn-clone-errata
> (not spw-clone-errata between local channels, yet).****
>
> ** **
>
> Martin****
>
> ** **
>
> *Fra:* spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:
> spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] *På vegne av* Pierre Casenove
> *Sendt:* 5. august 2011 07:45
> *Til:* spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> *Emne:* Re: [Spacewalk-list] Architecture question****
>
> ** **
>
> Hello,****
>
> Thanks for the feedback.****
>
> So all your system are in version 5.6 minimum and some subscribe to the
> updates channel, which now contains rhel 5.7 for example. Am I correct?***
> *
>
> Could you please point me to some tutorial to setup mrepo and rhn? Do you
> run mrepo and rebuild an iso every night or just once a week?****
>
> ** **
>
> Thanks,****
>
> ** **
>
> Pierre****
>
> ** **
>
> 2011/8/4 Martin Eggen <mare at steria.no>****
>
> ** **
>
> Hi,
> I follow the advice on
> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/PackageManagement/Spacewalk also for our
> RHEL systems, that is, I rhnpushed 5.6 to a Base RHEL5 channel and sync
> updates from a yum repo (which uses mrepo to fetch updates from RHN) into a
> child Updates channel. This is probably redundant but I can see some uses
> for having separate channels (allowing some systems to only subscribe to
> Base for a certain minor release). I created similar channels (Base +
> Updates) for CentOS 5, and one child channel under each Base for EPEL.
>
> I experienced some trouble after adding CentOS though, for some reason
> CentOS packages were appearing in my RHEL channels, making clients system
> complain (invalid PGP keys) and not fetching updates.  For the time being I
> have removed the CentOS channels/repos, but will have to make another try
> later.
>
> ****
>
> ** **
>
>
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