[Spacewalk-list] Patch management using spacewalk

[thepenguin whisperer]

Hi all,

I'm looking into doing patch management for 100+ RHEL servers.
I briefly looked into spacewalk and thought that I might accomplish what I
want with this project.

What I want:
- Groups of servers
- see all patches that can be installed on a group
- able to select the patches I want deployed on the group in a "patch-set"
- being able to later on apply this patchset to another group

Can I mix different architectures(x86 and x86_64) and versions(RHEL 5 and
6) in one group and will this work with updating packages in the before
mentioned process?
I created a software channel and selected RHEL5... as base channel. However
it seems that I only can upload my own rpms to such channels. Maybe I'm
misunderstanding the purpose of this custom software channel. I thought I
might be able to create a set of patches this way.

I noticed that you actually can't push immediately. Or am I wrong? (I have
been fiddling with RHN)
Or I can execute a script that has rhn_check in it?

Note that I might use names that are used in rhn but might be called
different in spacewalk.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Kind regards
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