[Spacewalk-list] CentOS errata spanning multiple releases

[Paul Robert Marino]

I know what this problem is
you have already published the errata to one channel but you want to
publish it again to a different channel.
well you cant do that :-(
you have two choices
1) the script you are using allows for publishing to multiple channels
in one shot however this is dangerous for a number of reasons.
2) the safe way is to publish it with a different name in each
channel. unfortunately I don't think David Nutters script has this
option

FYI if you want to know why option 1 is bad Google search "spacewalk
cross channel contamination" and a lot of discussions about it with
various different errata sync tools will pop up.
For more in depth technical details about root cause of the issue look
at this ticket https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=834569




On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Jon Miller <jonebird at gmail.com> wrote:
> Are you sure it isn't registered within your errata channel? If you upload a
> package which already exists, it will give you a message like you've seen
> but still create an entry / links within your channel. Check your channel to
> confirm whether or not the errata is listed.
>
> -- Jon Miller
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Nick Wales <nick at nickwales.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Using David Nutters script https://github.com/davidnutter/Centos-Errata
>>
>> I have a centos 5 machine and a centos 6 machine pushing errata. The
>> centos 6 errata is entered fine, but for errata which spans both releases
>> the second release that is attempted, in this case 5, the log reads
>>
>> "Errata CEEA-2012:1488 already exists on server, skipping"
>>
>> Any thoughts on how this can be overcome?
>>
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