[Spacewalk-list] Channel Recommendation - Best Practice

[Matthew Madey]

In a previous job, we had a requirement to keep all clients at RHEL5.8. To
do this we created a static RHEL5 channel with nothing subscribed to it,
and it was sync'd nightly. Then we created clone channels using
spacewalk-clone-by-date. Once the clone channel was created.. we refreshed
it daily with only security errata using the -o option for
spacewalk-clone-by-date. You can also use --blacklist to exclude particular
packages. I think that might be your best option, as I assume you want to
continue getting new security Errata's, but prevent upgrading to the next
minor version.


On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 9:55 PM, Waldirio Manhães Pinheiro <
waldirio at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello friends, good morning
>
> I've one doubt and would like to share with you to get feedback about what
> should be a best practice about it. For any reasons, in different
> environments we have to create a freeze channel, for example RHEL or CentOS
> 6.2.
>
> What do you recommend !?, Create a freezed channel using a release date
> from specific version or use a date before the next release ?! Let'me
> explain with example, the version of RHEL 6.2 was delivered in 2011-12-06
> (OS without erratas) and the version 6.2 complete with all erratas was in
> 2012-06-19 (one day before next version).
>
>
> Release/Update General Availability Date redhat-release Errata Date* Kernel
> Version   RHEL 6 Update 6 TBA TBA
> TBA  RHEL 6 Update 5 2013-11-21 2013-11-20 RHSA-2013:1645-2
> <https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1645.html> 2.6.32-431  RHEL 6
> Update 4 2013-02-21 2013-02-21 RHSA-2013-0496
> <https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0496.html> 2.6.32-358  RHEL 6
> Update 3 2012-06-20 2012-06-19 RHSA-2012-0862
> <http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0862.html> 2.6.32-279  RHEL 6
> Update 2 2011-12-06 2011-12-06 RHEA-2011:1743
> <http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2011-1743.html> 2.6.32-220  RHEL 6
> Update 1 2011-05-19 2011-05-19 RHEA-2011:0540
> <http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2011-0540.html> 2.6.32-131.0.15  RHEL
> 6 GA 2010-11-09 - 2.6.32-71
> Link to check dates - https://access.redhat.com/articles/3078
>
> What do you recommend about this procedure ?!
>
> Appreciate your comments.
>
>
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