[Spacewalk-list] Exclude packages from installing via client configuration

[Michael Mraka]

Michal Bruncko wrote:
% Thank you Michael!
% 
% One more thing: filtering is working great now, I can filter what I
% dont use except one example:
...
% but after using spacewalk-repo-sync the mysql-* packages are still synced:
% 
% # spacewalk-repo-sync --type=yum --channel="clone-centos6-x86_64-alt-ru-mod"
% Repo URL: http://centos.alt.ru/repository/centos/6/x86_64/
% Packages in repo:               269
% Packages passed filter rules:   145
% Packages already synced:          0
% Packages to sync:               145
% 
% 
% those packages are still included:
% mysql-libs-5.5.34-1.el6.x86_64      The shared libraries required
% for MySQL clients      Unknown
% mysql-plugin-pinba-5.5.34-1.el6.x86_64      Pinba storage engine  Unknown
% mysql-server-5.5.34-1.el6.x86_64      The MySQL server and related
% files      Unknown
% mysql-test-5.5.34-1.el6.x86_64      The test suite distributed with
% MySQL      Unknown
% 
% question: is this caused by dependency problem with some other -
% synced - package from same repo? or something else is causing this
% problem?

Exactly, mysql is pulled in as a dependency of some other (included)
package. Unfortunatelly there's no way how to disable that repoclosure
feature of spacewalk-repo-sync (other than hacking the source code).

Regards,

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Michael Mráka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat