[Spacewalk-list] Channels Clarification

[The PowerTool]

Hello,

I have a fully functional Spacewalk server supporting my FC18 install-base.  I'm running Spacewalk 1.9 server code.  If there's more detail required I'm happy to provide upon request (with instructions--if it's Spacewalk-specific).

I've read through the documentation on channels and I'm still a little unclear on how things work.  I have a "Fedora 18 - x86_64" channel and a "Spacewalk 1.9 Client" channel which were the result of following setup instructions provided in the Spacewalk documentation.

I would like to add support for RPMFusion free and non-free repos.

I would like to better understand how channels work.  If there's documentation I've not found please send me a pointer.

Question 1:  Should I add the RPMFusion free and non-free as child channels under my "Fedora 18 - x86_64" channel since it's for those systems?  Or should it be a separate "peer" channel?  If the answer is "it doesn't matter" then my only question would be what's the best practice and why.

Question 2:  In reading the Spacewalk documentation I came across scripts for causing channels to update from the upstream server.  My channels seem to do that automatically based upon the settings as part of the GUI config for Spacewalk.  Are those scripts for older versions or will I need to use them if I add more channels?

Note:  Q2 specifically refers to the last section of "Upload Content to Spacewalk (URL below)

Regularly syncing yum repositories

This ​script
 will get the yum repo information out of the database and trigger 
spacewalk-repo-sync for every channel that has a yum repository. You can
 run it from cron to sync your repositories on a regular basis.


Reference URL (Upload Content to Spacewalk):
https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/UploadFedoraContent

Thanks!!!

J. Mirman
 		 	   		  
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