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

[Daniel Alex Finkelstein]

Too much effort :) I wanted something that could pick all the packages from a repo with a single click. Instead, I just ran this command across all my servers: yum update -y --disablerepo "*" --enablerepo "spacewalk*"

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Daniel Alex Finkelstein, Manager of DevOps & Infrastructure
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On 2015-10-11, 11:17, "spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of Jan Dobes" <spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of jdobes at redhat.com> wrote:

>----- 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.
>> 
>> —
>> Daniel Alex Finkelstein, Manager of DevOps & Infrastructure
>> Investor Analytics - Risk Transparency
>> Phone: +1-646-553-4510 x131
>> Mobile: +1-718-246-7421
>> daniel.finkelstein at investoranalytics.com
>> www.investoranalytics.com
>> www.riskology.com
>> 
>
>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
>
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