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

[Matthew Madey]

For this sort of instance, I created a Zero Day patch channel all my
systems are subscribed to, and simply clone the critical erratas to this
channel as needed.

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Robert Paschedag <robert.paschedag at web.de>
wrote:

> I think I would subscribe the channel, apply the patch and unsubscribe
> again. Thus should work with action chains.Am 16.06.2015 7:31 nachm.
> schrieb "Clegg, Larry E [HDS]" <Larry.Clegg at hdsupply.com>:
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
>
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