[Spacewalk-list] trick to doing CentOS 6.3 > 6.4 update via spacewalk?

[Scott Worthington]

What I do is have a CentOS parent channel named "CentOS 6 - x86_64". It has NO packages assigned to it. 

Under that parent channel, create channels for 6.3 x86_64 Base, Updates, and Extras (and link and populate from external repos).

Kickstart distros are linked to the "CentOS 6.3 - x86_64 Base".

When 6.4 is released, create new child channels under "CentOS 6 - x86_64" named "CentOS - 6.4 - x86_64 - Base", "CentOS - 6.4 - x86_64 - Updates", and "CentOS - 6.4 - x86_64 - Extras".  Link the new channels to external repos.  Perform a Sync for each channel (actually, I download the ISO DVDs #1 & #2 for Base and rpmpush the ISO into Base).

Finally, when your new Base, Updates, and Extras are fully populated, you change your servers from CentOS 6.3 Base, Updates, and Extras to the new 6.4 Base, Updates, and Extras.

Then, on the servers, perform a yum update (or use the Spacewalk web GUI to push the updates).

On 3/11/2013 3:47 PM, Giovanni Torres wrote:
> What error are you getting?  As far as I know, this is a rolling update and can be done via Spacewalk.
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> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:21:47 -0400
> From: prmarino1 at gmail.com
> To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] trick to doing CentOS 6.3 > 6.4 update via spacewalk?
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> Based on my past experiences I think it needs to be done via yum but I'm not 100% sure.
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> On Mar 11, 2013 3:09 PM, Andy Ingham <andy.ingham at duke.edu> wrote:
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> Friendly list --
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> Now that CentOS 6.4 is available, I have 40+ servers that I'd like to
> update from 6.3 > 6.4.
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> I just finished bringing all the (spacewalk-managed) servers up to date
> with osad, rhn-check, rhn-client-tools, rhn-setup, rhnlib, etc. (I'm at
> version 1.8 still.)
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> Scheduling the update via spacewalk results in a failure, though.
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> Does the 6.3 > 6.4 upgrade need to happen via yum from the client? Or is
> there some trick to getting it to take via spacewalk?
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> TIA,
> Andy
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> Andy Ingham
> IT Infrastructure
> Fuqua School of Business
> Duke University