[Spacewalk-list] Child Channels..

[andre at vandervlies.xs4all.nl]

> andre at vandervlies.xs4all.nl wrote:
> % Hi,
> % Is it possible for a 'child channel' to be part of more than one 'base
> % channel'?
>
> No, child channel can have only one parent.
>
> % E.g. a 'noarch thingy' to de member of both the CentOS-5-i386 (base)
> % channel AND CentOS-5-x86_64 (base) channel??
> %
> % Now I have a 'noarch-i386' an a 'noarch-x86_64' for the appropiate base
> % channel...
>
> Yes, the most common way is to create a channel for one arch and clone
> it for the other(s).
>

But, to my knowledge, this is the same as creating a 'new' channel... Or
it does look so... When a clone a channel I'll still have to give a
different name, fill in the repository, etc. etc.

It look and feels the same as creating a new channel with a different name.
Please explain the differences to me.

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