[Spacewalk-list] How to properly setup Solaris Channels

[Daryl Rose]

Can I register the same client to two different channels?

Thank you

Daryl

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Ethan Bonick <ethan.bonick at truqua.com>
wrote:

> You shouldn’t have to do that. I have mine set up as separate channels on
> CentOS and they work independently. I would try out the Solaris if I had
> the time, but I don’t. I also don’t know Solaris really all that much,
> hopefully someone else can chime in.
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> *From:* spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:
> spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] *On Behalf Of *Daryl Rose
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 13, 2014 10:56 AM
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> *Subject:* Re: [Spacewalk-list] How to properly setup Solaris Channels
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> Ethan,
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> To answer your questions, yes. Yes, I ran the rhn_check -vv on the client
> server, and yes the server had checked in.  So, the updates channel was a
> child of the base, so when I re-registered the client, it should have known
> about the child because it was part of the activation key.
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> I've since blown away the base channel and the child channel and combined
> everything into a single channel. I know see that there are over 900
> updates available, which should be pretty accurate, however, I don't like
> all of patches and packages intermixed.  It makes it difficult to figure
> out whats what.  however, that is how the CentOS channel is, all three
> repositories combined into a single large list, so maybe I just have to get
> used to it.
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> Thanks
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> Daryl
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> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Ethan Bonick <ethan.bonick at truqua.com>
> wrote:
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> Have you run an rhn_check or has the server checked in get to get the new
> channel config? My guess would be it doesn't know about the channel yet.
> When you re-registered did you make sure the child channel is subscribed to
> by the base channel? I know some of it is low level and you might have
> checked already, but never hurts to ask. Also did you remove the repo or
> just the channel?
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> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 8:21 AM, Daryl Rose <rosede12 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> When I initially setup Solaris, I did just a single channel just for
> patches.  However, I decided that I want to also have a base channel as
> well.  Currently, if I want to add a new package to a Solaris server, I
> have to either pop a dvd into the drive, or NFS an ISO image.  However,
> this is what SW is for.  A repository of all of the packages, plus updates
> that may need to be applied.
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>
> I made a new base channel and imported all of the installation packages
> into it.   However, I already had an update channel with a system assigned
> to it.  What I am trying to figure out is; what is the correct way to set
> up the two channels?
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> I removed the updates channel, and recreated it as a child of the base
> channel.  I had previously removed the subscribed system, so I resubscribed
> to the base channel.  There are over 2000 packages in the base channel, and
> 381 in the updates channel.  I thought that once I resubscribed the server
> to the base/child updates channel, I would see needed updates. I know that
> there should be 80 updates needed on this server, however, SW tells me that
> the system is up to date.
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> When I setup the CentOS Channel, I created three repositories:  Base,
> Updates and Extra's.   All three are then assigned to the CentOS channel.
> There are now over 8000 packages available for the CentOS server.  Is best
> practice to put *ALL *base packages and updates together in a single
> channel so that way the Solaris server can see everything?  Why doesn't the
> client server see the child channel and SW tell me that it needs updates?
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> Thank you.
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> Daryl
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