[Spacewalk-list] critical patching outside of your normal patching cycle

[Clegg, Larry E [HDS]]

Greetings Spacewalkers,

I have a process question for you.  Here's the setup:

You have your systems setup in Spacewalk and subscribed to channels that are frozen in time, e.g.  some systems are subscribed the channels with all the Q2 patches and updates.  Other systems may still be subscribed to the Q1 patches and updates.  You have your latest channels that are sync'd with the vendor's latest offerings but no systems are subscribed to these "latest" channels.

Let's say a vendor (Redhat, Oracle, etc) releases a critical bug fix patch to their "latest" channel.   Let's say you want to deploy this critical bug fix asap - even though it is out of step with your quarterly patching cycle.   You have a system that is subscribed to a channel tree that is frozen in time, for example a system is subscribed to your Q2 patches.    You're not ready to update everything yet but you do want this one critical bug fix patch (and any dependencies) to be made available to this system.

How do you go about handling this type of situation?

Thanks,

Larry

Larry Clegg
HD Supply San Diego
EMail: Larry.Clegg at HDSupply.com<mailto:Larry.Clegg at HDSupply.com>

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