[Spacewalk-list] Errata with multiple RHEL clones

[Stuart Green]

+1 for Franky's script

Works great for me on CentOS

Stu

On 26/08/2013 19:02, Franky Van Liedekerke wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 15:03:29 +0000
> "Coffman, Anthony J" <Tony.Coffman at snapon.com> wrote:
>
>> I haven't done much with errata import scripts in Spacewalk but when
>> I last tried it on an older version (1.7 maybe?) there seemed to be
>> an issue with having CentOS/OracleLinux/ScientificLinux in the same
>> Spacewalk.  If I recall correctly, it didn't seem possible to keep
>> the Errata cleanly separated between the distros because the package
>> names were the same in many cases.
>>
>> Can somebody enlighten me on this topic and best practices for Errata
>> with multiple RHEL clones?  Has the situation changed or improved in
>> any way with one of the newer errata import scripts?  Is there one of
>> these scripts that works best in this situation?
>>
>> I'd like to revisit pulling in errata for these distros in order to
>> provide better info on updates to be applied to my users as we
>> progresses patches up through the tiers but I don't want to make a
>> mess in Spacewalk.  I'm currently getting errata for OracleLinux
>> automatically through reposync and so far the OracleLinux errata seem
>> to be doing what I expect (associate only with packages in the Oracle
>> Linux channels).
>>
>> Thanks and regards,
>> --Tony
>>
> I won't speak for other errata scripts, but the one I maintain
> (ya-errata) supports centos and rhel distro's on the same spacewalk
> server without issues. I made sure that no cross-channel contamination
> can occur.
> You can find it here:
> https://github.com/liedekef/spacewalk_scripts
> It supports redhat, centos, scientific linux, oracle and epel errata,
> and supports proxies. Examples can be found there as well.
>
> Franky
>
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