[Spacewalk-list] Patch Repositories - Monthly Patching

[J Epperson]

We use channel clones, snapshotting them at 12:01AM on the first of the
month. We have Test and Prod channels. If a critical erratum comes out
during the month, we can clone it through the GUI into the Test channels
and do QA testing, then clone into Prod. Note that this is RHN Satellite
5.4, so YMMV. 

But for some reason the shellshock erratum from Red Hat showed up
broken: it shows applicability to RHEL5/6 32/64bit channels, but has
only the RHEL6 64-bit bash update attached. I have a case open on that,
am trying "satellite-sync --force-all-errata" while waiting further
response from Red Hat (who first suggested an old out-of-memory KB
solution that doesn't match the symptoms, and had already been applied
in any case). 

On 2014-09-26 8:34, Glen Collins wrote: 

> Hi All,
> 
> I have a general question of the community on how everyone does their patching. Here is what my company does....
> 
> Update the repository once a month on Microsoft Patch Tuesday. Keep that as a baseline for the entire month so DEV, Test and Prod systems are patched exactly alike. While this works pretty well, I do find some issues with it. Like when an Errata's come out - My repository is not updated until the next month. Which in turn I can miss out on patches which should or need to be installed and unless I'm on the mailing lists, I'll miss it. I have heard you can clone a channel and use that as a baseline and use the regular channel to keep everything updated.
> 
> So my question is, how does everyone else do this and do I have the correct approach to clone the channel and use that as my baseline for the patching and if need be, put the servers in the main group for any errata's that come up.
> 
> I would love to hear everyone thoughts on this.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Glen Collins
> 
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