<div dir="ltr"><div>yes you can. Read that article, it lays out 3 options.</div><div>I would probably use the spacewalk-clone-by-date command.</div><div>As to the why they disappeared from the repo, its quite common on certain Distros and 3rd party repositories. The idea is that every one wants the latest version not the ones in between, we in the trenches know thats wrong but it is what the maintainers of those repos are think.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 5:10 PM, Daryl Rose <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:darylrose@outlook.com" target="_blank">darylrose@outlook.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>You are correct. It appears that the upstream repo pruned their packages. If I were to remove the old channel, the packages currently in that channel would become orphaned, correct? Can I then import them into the new channel?</p>
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<div class="m_-4370827635168476796PlainText"><span class="">it may be that the upstream source has pruned its repo.<br>
in that canes try to copy the channel instead.<br>
here is an article on RedHat's site that describes a few options<br>
<a href="https://access.redhat.com/solutions/42232" id="m_-4370827635168476796LPlnk849436" target="_blank">https://access.redhat.com/<wbr>solutions/42232</a>
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note the article is based on RHN Satellite 5 so some of the paths may<br>
be different but spacewalk is the upstream code base for it so its<br>
essentially correct.<br>
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On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 3:32 PM, Daryl Rose <<a href="mailto:darylrose@outlook.com" target="_blank">darylrose@outlook.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Avi,<br>
><br>
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> The steps that you provided work great, with one exception. The original<br>
> channel has over 3000 packages, while the new channel has only 752. Why<br>
> wouldn't the new channel get all 3000?<br>
><br>
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> I didn't know if there was some kind of conflict between the two channels,<br>
> so I disconnected the old channel from the repo and ran a new sync. The<br>
> sync came back and said there wasn't anything new to sync.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Thoughts?<br>
><br>
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> Thank you.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Daryl<br>
><br>
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> To: <a href="mailto:spacewalk-list@redhat.com" target="_blank">spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a><br>
> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] How to fix typo in channel label?<br>
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> Hi,<br>
><br>
> On 19 Jan 2017, at 2:13 am, Daryl Rose <<a href="mailto:darylrose@outlook.com" target="_blank">darylrose@outlook.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> If I blow away the current channel and recreate it, do I have to blow away<br>
> the repository as well? Can I keep the repo and just link them back up?<br>
> How about the three systems that I currently have registered to the channel,<br>
> do I have to re-register them?<br>
><br>
><br>
> You don't have to blow away the repository and you'll find that syncing is<br>
> (almost) a no-op on the initial run because the packages already exist<br>
> locally. They'll just get added to the new channel.<br>
><br>
> You do not need to re-register the systems either. Just switch them to the<br>
> new channel (if it is a base channel) or remove the old and add the new<br>
> channel (if it is a child).<br>
><br>
> So, the simplest option is actually to add a new channel (with the right<br>
> name) and assign the repo and run the sync and then switch the clients.<br>
> You'll find it's both pretty quick and pretty low risk.<br>
><br>
> Note that I would create the new channel and switch all the clients and make<br>
> sure it all works before deleting the old channel. You can have multiple<br>
> channels pointing to the same repo, so that's fine.<br>
><br>
> Cheers,<br>
> Avi<br>
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