[Spacewalk-list] clone-errata ChanMap advice

[David Nutter]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:17:05AM -0800, John McCoy wrote:
> Hey Andy thanks for the reply.
> 
> RE: apply RHEL errata to CentOS: Ya I tend to do things a little
> differently, but I normally get there. CentOS is typically used for
> "customers" and getting them to apply patches is as we all know painful
> at best so  being able to know when they are needed is really beneficial
> to both my workflow and applying pressure when patching is needed.
> 
> CentOS announces errata notifications just like RH. I can forward you a
> few if you wish.
> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce
> Is there a web resource to pull them from like you do with RH I'm unsure
> of. The CentOS announcements actually point back to RH for the real
> description so the errata seem to follow a very 1 to 1 relationship.
> Clearly the underling packages are different though.

My script centos-errata.py will convert the centos-announce messages
into errata. 

http://www.bioss.ac.uk/staff/davidn/spacewalk-stuff/

It's not as slick as cloning errata directly from Redhat but it will
probably do what you want.

Regards,

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