[Spacewalk-list] Testing spacewalk systems management software

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 11:25:10PM +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have setup Spacewalk systems management software in my LAN segment. Not
> sure how do i test spacewalk server and the client machines to talk to
> spacewalk server if there are any new patches or updates or errata being
> available. Please help me understand the difference between update and
> errata.

Update is a new version (release) of package. Errata is a metadata on
top of some rpms version (releases), grouping it together, adding some
more information. When you apply an errata, on the client new package
versions get installed (upgraded).

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Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat