[Spacewalk-list] Retired Channels

[Miroslav Suchy]

On 27.3.2012 23:51, Will L wrote:
> There are channels in Spacewalk that I would like to retire as I don't
> want to delete them, but I also don't want them crowding up the active
> list and confusing people.
>
> I know that retired channels exist and that RedHat (RHN) uses it, but
> I have no idea how to make a channel show up as retired. I do not find
> retiring channels in either the documentation or the mailing list.
>
> Can someone shed some light on this feature and how we can retire
> channels without having to just delete them?

You could not.

You can only do it by manually interact directly with database. I can 
only guess that table rhnchannel and column end_of_life is the way. But 
you should not do that unless you know what are you doing.

Mirek