[Spacewalk-list] Configuration Management - Dependencies

[Stuart Green]

That's excellent information, thank's for taking the time Matt.

> You may be able to achieve this using the Configuration Channel ranks 
> under Activation Keys.. but this will only work when you are first 
> registering the client to Spacewalk.. once it is registered I don't 
> think you can achieve what you are trying to do using Configuration 
> Channels.. this sounds more like a job for Puppet.. you could however 
> put a script that does what you need as a configuration file, and use 
> Remote Actions to run it on the selected clients.
>
> I use the API heavily for these kinds of tasks.. there is a great 
> little python script out there on Github for scheduling remote actions 
> on clients. Basically all you have to do is create the script you want 
> to run on a client, and pipe it to this python script:
>
> https://github.com/angrox/spacewalk-api-scripts/tree/master/spacewalk-schedule-scriptrun
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 5:45 AM, Stuart Green 
> <stuart.green at doccentrics.com <mailto:stuart.green at doccentrics.com>> 
> wrote:
>
>     Hi Folks,
>
>     Is there a way to make one configuration management channel change
>     dependant on another.
>
>     In this case, I have two steps.
>
>     Create a new directory on the client
>     Create a new file on the client within the new directory
>
>     I want to make sure the 1st step happens before the 2nd, so the
>     2nd step does not fail, is it possible?
>
>     Thanks,
>     Stu
>
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