[Spacewalk-list] latest channel synchronization

Stephen Herr sherr at redhat.com
Wed Feb 4 14:43:22 UTC 2015


On 02/03/2015 03:07 PM, Reneau, Wes W [HDS] wrote:
> Changing my stance, therefore changing my question.
>
> Using Oracle’s Spacewalk 2.0.
>
> If I choose to spacewalk-clone-by-date my master 6 latest channel then I
> must specify a date, otherwise the default behavior is to exclude errata.
>
> -d TO_DATE, --to_date=TO_DATE
>
>                          Clone errata to the specified date (YYYY-MM-DD). If
>
>                          omitted will assume no errata.
>
> If I clone using the gui I have no choice but to use all errata or no
> errata and I have no intention of selecting errata manually.
>
> I want to clone my latest channel, which includes all errata, to my dev
> channel but only include security errata.
>
> Assuming the previous statement is true:
>
> 1.How is this accomplished?
>
> 2.Will it prevent a revision upgrade (from 6.5 to 6.6)?
>
> Thanks
>
> Wes

1) use spacewalk-clone-by-date with today's date and the --security_only 
option.

2) No, theoretically the 6.6 channel should include everything that is 
in the 6.5 channel and more, so there should be no dependency problems.

-Stephen




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