[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.4: updating/upgrading packages from only a child channel

[Jan Dobes]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daniel Alex Finkelstein" <daniel.finkelstein at investoranalytics.com>
> To: Spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2015 9:10:18 PM
> Subject: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.4: updating/upgrading packages from	only a child channel
> 
> After upgrading Spacewalk to 2.4, there were about a dozen packages as part
> of the new spacewalk* client repository that requested updating on my
> Spacewalk managed clients. However, when I look to update packages on these
> servers, I'm presented with all the updates for all the channels that
> they're subscribed to. Is there a way to perform the Spacewalk-only updates
> and leave the other packages (unless there are dependencies) untouched?
> 
> Thanks,
> Dan
> 
> P.S. In case this matters, the servers under consideration are all versions
> of CentOS.
> 
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> Daniel Alex Finkelstein, Manager of DevOps & Infrastructure
> Investor Analytics - Risk Transparency
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Hello,

in Spacewalk web interface select and schedule only spacewalk client packages for upgrade on your clients and then wait for/run manually rhn_check on clients. Does it work for you?

Regards,
-- 
Jan Dobes
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat