[Spacewalk-list] help - who to apply security patches/erratas only

[Musayev, Ilya]

I’m thinking on how to do this in programmatic way


1)      gather a list of security errata applicable to specific group of hosts via spacecmd or API.


2)      Clone a channel and add only applicable security erratas to this channel, also via spacecmd or API.


3)      Assign channel to needed hosts and push the packages that are applicable via security errata. You should only have security packages appicable if done right.

My 2 cents..



From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Ward, Pierce
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 11:03 AM
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Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] help - who to apply security patches/erratas only

If you install the ‘yum-security’ plugin you can update by errata type from the CLI (e.g. yum list-sec).

From the spacewalk gui you can use system set manager to update all errata, but I don’t know if you can specify by errata type. I know if you select an individual server and click on errata, you can select the type there and then “apply errata” on a server-by-server basis.

From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Veeravalli, Prabhakar
Sent: 17 May 2012 15:28
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Subject: [Spacewalk-list] help - who to apply security patches/erratas only

Hi Spacewalk Gurus,

Can you please guide me on how to apply security patches only on a selected system?


1.       I see that we can select the systems and then manually select (select check-box) the security erratas

Is there a automatic way to select all security patches via GUI/browser or command-line?
Command-line, I would prefer run from spacewalk server i.e. push to client system method

Please advice,
Thank you in advance!

-PV

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