[Spacewalk-list] Cloning/syncing errata between channels

[Frank Mikkelsen Blohmé]

Hi Franky!
I’d be grateful if you could add that feature. Thank you very much.

Regarding my setup, I have been trying to determine on my own what would be the best channel setup for my needs.
If anyone has a better layout/setup/examples/recommendations, I’d gladly have a look at it.

I have assumed that a host can only access channels that are children of the parent that the host is subscribed to, is that assumption wrong?
I have also assumed that a host can only subscribe to one base channel aka the parent channel according to the assumption above. Wrong thinking?

Regarding the split of channels based on purpose, that’s another assumption I have made since Red Hat Network has this channel layout, that the packages differ between the client/workstation/server/etc releases and that it would be wisest to mimic their setup.

Maybe I have been “assuming” a little too much?

Best regards

Frank Mikkelsen Blohmé
Axis Communications AB

From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Franky Van Liedekerke
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Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Cloning/syncing errata between channels


On 2013-03-26 10:51, Frank Mikkelsen Blohmé wrote:
Hi!
I’ve been trying to figure out how to clone/sync the errata in one channel into another channel within the same Spacewalk server (version 1.8) but haven’t found any resolution.
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Sync the errata info from Fedora EPEL 5 and 6 errata files into Spacewalk channels using ya-errata-import.pl – Works for one channel with Fedora EPEL 5 RPMs and one channel with Fedora EPEL 6 RPMs.

9.

 ya-errata-import.pl will import your errata into a channel if the packages for that errata are there.
Re-running ya-errata-import.pl with the same errata for another channel (for the same OS type) will indeed fail, just because like you said: the ID exists.

Your setup is a bit unique in that way that you have the same OS type but for different purposes (workstation, server).
It's not difficult to add an option to add a suffix to errata, so I'll code it up.

Franky
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