[Spacewalk-list] Channel Management

[Jon Stanley]

Reply to sender vs. list strikes again!

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Jason Frisvold <xenophage0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hrm..  makes sense...  But if I do use the multiple-channel
> philosophy, will spacewalk handle properly identifying what packages
> need to be updated?  ie, I'm in the 5.0 channel, but 5.1 just came
> out.  I switch to the 5.1 base channel, will spacewalk let me update
> the packages?

Yeppers. That;s generally how folks manage the version that's on a box
(within a release, of course) - make one channel for 5.1, another for
5.2.  When you're ready to go to 5.2, just change the base channel,
schedule the package updates, and you're done!
>
>> Nope, just push them into the base channel. If you want errata to show
>> up in the WebUI, then you'll have to manually create them...
>
> Yep.  I got that part.  This is for my own management, so I don't need
> errata at the moment..
>
> Thanks for the info!