[Spacewalk-list] telling Spacewalk a server doesn't need specific packages

[Waldirio Manhães Pinheiro]

Hello Elizabeth,

I believe you could do according the Michael advice, another option could
be create one config channel and there deploy the yum conf file with all
packages that you need exclude.

In my humble opinion, the first one will be better, you could create the
new channel using spacewalk-clone-by-date.

Best Regards

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On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 11:04 AM, Michael Mraka <michael.mraka at redhat.com>
wrote:

> Elizabeth Jones:
> > We have some servers that have packages that can't be updated due to app
> issues.  Spacewalk has these servers flagged as red although they are
> patched - we have the excluded RPMs listed in /etc/yum.conf on the servers,
> so the servers themselves know they don't need those packages.  Is there
> any way to tell spacewalk itself that those packages should be excluded for
> those servers, so I can see via spacewalk that patching is up to date on
> those servers?
>
> Hi,
>
> Spacewalk don't know about excludes in /etc/yum.conf that's why it show
> servers need patching. Unfortunately there's no way to exclude packages for
> a spacific server on spacewalk webui.
>
> You can solve it by creating a different channel without excluded packages.
> E.g.:
> Create new repository with the same url as you currently use for
> downloading packages but set filters on it (exclude packages you want).
> Then create new channel with exactly same settings as current one but
> using new (filtered) repository.
> And subscribe servers to this new channel.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Michael Mráka
> System Management Engineering, Red Hat
>
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