[Spacewalk-list] Moving child channels between parent channels

[David Nutter]

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:06:13PM +0100, James Hogarth wrote:

> Hmm I was hoping to avoid redoing my activation keys, kickstarts and
> system subscriptions (after all with a clone the channel ID will
> change) by just moving them....

Yeah, it is slightly annoying. We tend to move our systems piecemeal
between releases over the course of a week or two so distributions
necessarily coexist for a period. It also means we don't experience
the pain of changing loads of systems subscriptions at once, just one
or two a day which is easily accomplished through system set manager.

We don't use cobbler for install so amending kickstarts is not
required in our case[1] and we only have 3 activation keys so that's
simple to deal with too. 
 
> I can knock out something for the API perhaps and submit it but I was
> hoping Jan or Mirov would have some insight on how easy this would be
> or if it would bring a mountain of horribleness down on my head....
> 
> My base channel and update channel for centos of centos_5.4 and
> centos_5.4_update I'm regretting now as I could have just emptied it
> of packages and resync'd them to the new paths upstream.... but it
> looks like changing a channel label would be worse than changing the
> parent channel ID in the database so far as potential corruptions and
> where they are used...

Can't help with that I'm afraid!

Regards,

[1] Our external kickstarts reference yum repositories which track the
latest release anyway. 

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