[Spacewalk-list] "Whitelisting" certain RPMs

[Paul Robert Marino]

An other alternative I've been considering is having two spacewalk
servers one in a QA environment and a second in production. Then once
my builds and updates pass QA testing using inter satellite sync to
push the changes into production.

On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 8:05 AM, Dimitri Yioulos <dyioulos at onpointfc.com> wrote:
> :-(
>
> 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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