[Spacewalk-list] Need help with implementation

[Choure, Siddharth]

Ok I figured out to add packages from one channel to another using the GUI.
Now my question is how do I make sure that the dependencies for those
packages get transferred as well?

Thanks,
Siddharth Choure


On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Choure, Siddharth
<schoure at 1worldsync.com>wrote:

> Hi Alyson,
> Thanks for your response. My setup is identical to yours. I have all the
> packages in Level1 and created a Level 2 Private Channel that has all the
> packages that one would expect in 6.4 release. Now if I want to push
> packages from Level 1 to Level 2, how would I do that other than rhn_push?
>
> Thanks,
> Siddharth Choure
>
>
> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Alyson Calhoun <alyson.calhoun at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> This is how we are currently implementing our setup:
>>
>>  Level 1:  RHN public channel
>>        Level 2: Create a "private" channel (considered as dev)
>>              Level 3:Create another channel (considered as qa)
>>                   Level 4: one more channel - stable packages (considered
>> as prod)
>>
>>
>> Pull all your nightly packages in level 1
>> Then sync level2 - do not sync after that until you are ready for updated
>> packages and test they work on your dev builds.
>>
>> As you go down the levels, each step is a more "stable" package release.
>>
>> From level 2 down, it will only sync when you manually push the packages.
>>
>> Hope that makes sense.
>>
>>
>>  On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Choure, Siddharth <
>> schoure at 1worldsync.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  So I am doing a Spacewalk installation for our organization.
>>>
>>> Here is my setup -
>>> 1. Dedicated Spacewalk server.
>>> 2. mrepo pulls all packages from RH base channel and dumps it into
>>> rhel-x86_64-server-6 channel.
>>> 3. I have created a custom channel for our machines matching the release
>>> and update we are using. eg. for RHEL6.4, I created rhel6u4 channel using
>>> the following command -
>>>
>>> spacewalk-create-channel --user=me --server=localhost --version=6
>>> --update=u4 --release=Server --arch=x86_64 --destChannel=rhel6u4
>>>
>>> and all my test machines are subscribed to this channel.
>>>
>>> This channel has packages that would exist like if I had a 6.4 iso.
>>>
>>> Now my question is, rhel-x86_64-server-6 channel gets updated nightly by
>>> mrepo via a cronjob. Suppose RH releases a newer version of kernel that we
>>> think we need for our machines or any other package for that matter, how do
>>> I transfer that package from mrepo updated channel to our release channel?
>>> I know I can do rhn_push but that will involve a lot of work. Is there an
>>> easier way to do it?
>>>
>>> I am also open to suggestions on how to tweak what I am trying to do
>>> which is basically, have a frozen channel to which all new machines will be
>>> subscribed to as per their release and update and then update the packages
>>> in those channels as per our organizations need.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Siddharth Choure
>>>
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