[Spacewalk-list] Selective updates on client side

[Deependra Shekhawat]

Hi All,

We have a setup where in we have the following channels:

---rhel5.5-x86_64-dvd
------rhel5.5-x86_64-updates

The base channel is rhel5.5-x86_64-dvd having all the RPMs which came in the
RHEL 5.5 64bit DVD. The child channel is subscribed to RHN and hence
contains all the updates for RHEL 5.5 64bit systems.

Now all the systems are subscribed to both base as well as child channel.
The problem is that on the client side the update applet shows all the
relevant updates applicable for that system.

The requirement is that the update applet should only show critical updates
and only those should be available to admin to apply on the client.

One way we thought of doing this was by creating a new channel and push all
the critical updates to that channel. Later subscribe the clients with only
that channel. This way only critical updates can be seen on client but that
deprives the client to get the other updates if there is a need to do that.

Please let me know if we can restrict the update applet in some way to show
only critical updates keeping yum update as an option to apply any other
update which might not be critical.

Thanks,
Deependra
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