[Spacewalk-list] Advice on Repo Configuration

[Net Warrior]

Thank you very much!
Regards

2014-11-21 13:16 GMT-03:00 Matthew Madey <mattmadey at gmail.com>:

> Unless you have a requirement to stay at 6.5, I'd recommend just setting
> your repo to: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/x86_64/ and
> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/updates/x86_64/
> This way you'll always have the latest packages for CentOS6. This is the
> way I have it configured. Clients will stay at their current release as
> long as only security updates are applied. But if you wanted to go from 6.x
> to 6.6 you just need to do a full yum update and you're good.
>
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Net Warrior <netwarrior863 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi there community.
>> I'd like an advice or suggestion regarding repository configuration, so
>> let me tell you what my issue is.
>> I have a couple of repo configured, and one of them is a centos one, with
>> the following configuration:
>>
>> Centos 6.5 Main
>> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6.5/os/x86_64/
>> The updates:
>> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6.5/updates/x86_64/
>>
>> So far so good, now as all we know CentOS has a new Release 6.6, what I
>> notice is that I did not get any other update to the channel, so all my
>> clients will be stuck with 6.5.
>>
>> My question is, is it sane to configure the channel that way and create
>> another one for the 6.6 ? or should I configure the channel to
>> automatically update to 6.6, for example, I have a server for testing
>> purposes conected directly to internet, and when the new 6.6 was released
>> when  I performed a yum update I was told there was a new release update,
>> so , how can I configure my channels to behave that way , if it the right
>> way to go or what it the best practice for this matter.
>>
>> Thank for your time and support.
>> Best regards.
>>
>>
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