[Spacewalk-list] How to properly setup Solaris Channels

Thu Nov 13 23:37:39 UTC 2014

Daryl

Child channel yes, Base channel no!

Take care
Em 13/11/2014 17:43, "Daryl Rose" <rosede12 at gmail.com> escreveu:

> Can I register the same client to two different channels?
>
> Thank you
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> Daryl
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> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Ethan Bonick <ethan.bonick at truqua.com>
> wrote:
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>> 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:
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>> 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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