[Spacewalk-list] baseline

[Justin Edmands]

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Matthew Wimpelberg <mwimpelberg at mlp.com>wrote:

> I would like to create a system of software baselines so that in my env, I
> can say your box will be one of lets say 4 software sets.  Can I setup
> channels that are approved by my organization and that don't update?
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I'll approach this as if you are new to the system.

I'm not sure if this is what you mean...but create a new Activation Key
(Systems --> Activation Keys) and play with the settings. The settings for
each Activation Key are:

    Child Channels
    Packages
    Configuration
    Groups
    Activated Systems

You should be able to accomplish a great deal of customized defaults for
newly registered systems.

Next up is the updating portion:
Clone existing Software Channel, remove existing repository, add new
repository with different name(but same repo URL), assign this repo to the
cloned channel, hit "Sync", do not setup future sync schedule.

A little word of caution, each Software channel takes up disk space for
packages. Knowing this, go ahead and clone an existing channel for testing
purposes. After that, just replicate the underlying repo and point to it,
leaving out the repo syncing portion.
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