[Spacewalk-list] Channel clonning and patching strategy

[Lupin Deterd]

Yes, the point being of using Spacewalk instead of plain cobbler/repo sync
is that you can have a lock channel and with spacewalk-clone-by-date you
can have complete control on when do you have your clone channel get
updated.


On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Paul Robert Marino <prmarino1 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Well I have an idea I've been toying with for that but I haven't tested it
> yet.
>
>
> Since cobbler does contain a usable yum repo under the hood you could
> theoretically point repo sync to one of the other repos in cobbler.
> Figuring out the URL is simple just view one of the kickstarts that uses
> the source channel and you can copy the URL it uses for the channel.
> The only problem I can see in doing that is I don't think the errata
> syncing wouldn't work because I don't think cobblers repos get the erratas
> synced.
>
> I've been thinking of doing this for things like EPEL where I have
> multiple copies for CentOS, Scientific Linux, etc..
>
>
>
> -- Sent from my HP Pre3
>
> ------------------------------
> On Dec 10, 2013 13:56, Lupin Deterd <lupindeterd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi list,
>
> I'm exploring the following setup.
>
> - Multi-org setup
>   sub-org1
>   sub-org2
>   sub-org3
>
> -Patching schedule policy
>   sub-org1 - monthly
>   sub-org2 - quaterly
>   sub-org3 - monthly
>
> Based on the organization and schedule, I want then to clone my channels
> as such.
>
> Source Base Channel Centos6(Default Org)
>  - monthly-dev-clone-Centos6
>  - monthly-qa-clone-Centos6
>  - monthly-prod-clone-Centos6
>
>  -qtrly-dev-clone-Centos6
>  -qtrly-qa-clone-Centos6
>  -qtrly-prod-clone-Centos6
>
> Then I will share the monthly clones channel to sub-org{1,3} and quaterly
> clones to sub-org2.
>
> I would like to ask for feedback on this setup or any other ways to
> accomplish my requirements.
>
> Thanks,
> lupin
>
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