[Spacewalk-list] Excluding Packages in a Channel?

[Michael Mraka]

Wojtak, Greg wrote:
% Is there a way to exclude certain packages in a channel from being
% installed/updated unless overridden?
% 
% For example, I built a php-5.3.5 set of packages and I pushed them
% into a custom channel.  All of my systems are currently subscribed to
% this channel, but there are couple systems where it would be
% undesirable to update to php 5.3.5.
% 
% Is there an equivalent way to exclude packages by default within a
% channel (similar to adding the excludepackages line to a repository
% config file with yum)?  I'd hate to have to create separate channels
% with two or three packages in them each.

I'm affraid the best way to achieve this is to put php* packages
into a separate child channel.

There's no way how to block a list of packages from channel on specific
client on spacewalk side. And putting them into yum exclude list on
client side will not stop them from poping up in spacewalk webUI.

% Thanks in advance!
% Greg

Regards,

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Michael Mráka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat