[Spacewalk-list] 2 small questions

[Michiel van Es]

Hi Justin,

I did not set a universal key.
Only a centos 5 channel key.
When I look at child channels I see:

Any system registered using this activation key will be subscribed to 
the selected child channels.

The following child channels of centos5 can be associated with this 
activation key.

And then the epel_centos5 child channel selected.
Can I Unselect it?

On the old spacewalk server none of the child channels are selected but 
on the new spacewalk server (0.7) the child channel is selected and so 
all centos 5 clients get default the epel repo as child channel with 
them. (which I dont't want)

Kind regards,

Michiel

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] 2 small questions
From: Justin Sherrill <jsherril at redhat.com>
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com <spacewalk-list at redhat.com>
Date: 01/06/2010 09:01 PM

> Michiel van Es wrote:
>> Hi I got 2 questions:
>>
>> 1)
>> I have a new spacewalk server where I have a main centos 5 i386 channel
>> and below the main channel a epel repo for centos 5.
>> Whenever I subscribe a node to the CentoS 5 main channel, it
>> automatically inherits it;s child : the epel repository.
>> How can I disable this feature or whay shoulde be done to let nodes only
>> subsribe to the main centos 5 channel but not it's child channels?
>>
>
> By default a system won't be auto-subscribed to the child channel.  Are
> you sure you don't have the child channel specified in the activation
> key you are registering with?
>
> Also make sure you don't have an activation key set to be universal default.
>
>> 2)
>> Is it possible to use yum priorities through spacewalk?
>> So you can say that the main channel packages always overrule the child
>> packages?
>> Or must this be done through the client's yum priorties package?
>
> this doesn't currently work.  There is a bugzilla open on it though:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515720
>
> -Justin
>
>
>