[Spacewalk-list] "Whitelisting" certain RPMs

[Dimitri Yioulos]

:-(

Thanks, Michael.


On Thursday 08 August 2013 5:16:36 am Michael Mraka wrote:
> Dimitri Yioulos wrote:
> % Good morning (at least where I am), list.
> %
> % On some of my CentOS servers, there are certain
> packages % installed.  mainly as dependencies, for which,
> % unfortunately, there are seldom updates for them, or
> the % updates won't work with the main packages. 
> Examples are % perl-Digest-SHA and libyaml.  So, when
> doing general % updates on those servers via yum, one
> would use % the --exclude switch.  What I've done is
> whitelisted those % packages in yum.conf, so as to avoid
> having to use the % switch.  I hope I explained that
> clearly.
> %
> % Regarding Spacewalk, is it possible to also whitelist
> those % packages so that under System Overview, the
> affected % systems don't show as needing to update the
> packages?
>
> Hi Dimitri,
>
> Nope, there's no way to simply suppress reporting this
> packages in webUI.
>
> The complex solution to this could be cloning the channel
> without excluded packages and subscribing clients to the
> cloned channel.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Michael Mráka
> Satellite Engineering, Red Hat
>
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