[Spacewalk-list] How to trigger errata warnings for testing purposes?

[Robert Alsdorff]

Am 04.07.2016 16:11, schrieb Robert Alsdorff:
> Am 01.07.2016 14:41, schrieb Eric Herget:
>> On 07/01/2016 03:30 AM, Robert Alsdorff wrote:
>>> Hey,
>>> I'm testing Spacewalk with a bunch of CentOS servers. The CentOS 6, 7 
>>> and EPEL 6, 7 repositories are completely synced and I imported the 
>>> CentOS errata data from cefs.steve-meier.de via CLI. EPEL errata is 
>>> synced by Spacewalk itself. My testing servers were nearly up to date 
>>> when I added them to Spacewalk so no errata errors are reported right 
>>> now. Is there a way to trigger some kind of demo report? I tried to 
>>> create an errata myself that flags a random package as vulnerable to 
>>> test the warning features of Spacewalk but did not really understand 
>>> the way erratas work.
>>> 
>>> Any ideas on this?
>>> Thanks!
>>> 
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>> 
>> Hi Robert,
>> 
>> I recently joined the Satellite team and am currently ramping up on
>> how to use Spacewalk.  I happened to be working with Errata
>> functionality yesterday.  To see the warning notification work I did
>> the following...
>> 
>> At first I had my client system subscribed to a channel configured
>> with a repo that already had the version of the package I was using to
>> test (and my client system had an earlier version of that package
>> installed).  In this case, creating an erratum to identify that
>> version of the package and associating the erratum with that same
>> channel that already contained the package did not result in the
>> notification I was expecting.
>> 
>> Instead, I unsubscribed the client system from the channel containing
>> the newer version package, then created a new channel and subscribed
>> my client system to the new channel.  Next, add the erratum to the new
>> channel.  Since the erratum is the "cause" of the newer version
>> package getting added to the channel, and since my client system had
>> an earlier version of the package installed, the notification I
>> expected did occur.
>> 
>> I hope this helps.
>> 
>> Eric
> 
> Hey Eric,
> 
> so in theory I could install an old version of package XYZ (a package
> with an existing errata that I imported into Spacewalk) and afterwards
> assign the server to the channel with the imported errata?
> 
> Robert

For your information: Yes it does work exactly like i said.
Thanks for the help!

Robert