[Spacewalk-list] base patch or latest

[Avi Miller]

Hey Dan,

> On 23 Feb 2016, at 10:09 PM, Daniel Eather <daniel.eather at cranegroup.com.au> wrote:
> 
> Wow, some great info there, thanks a lot. We were stuck unfortunately at 6.5 as Ops Center 12.2.2 only supported OL 6.5. Now with the release of 12.3.1 it supports up to Oracle Linux 7, but only provisioning, not patching! Which means we had to abandon patching from Ops Center and look elsewhere (insert SpaceWalk!).

Ops Center should be supported on Oracle Linux 6, regardless of update level. Therefore, you should be able to run it completely supported on the latest Oracle Linux 6. And if there is material that says it is, let me know (off-list) so I can chase that down and get it fixed.

>  Yep, we’re on SpaceWalk 2.2. It’s fantastic news Oracle are looking to release 2.4 soon….any rough ideas on an ETA? I only ask because this instance of SpaceWalk is POC, and I’d consider hanging off releasing it to Ops if 2.4 was not too far away J

Note that it's Spacewalk (no camel-case). We are pretty close to releasing 2.4 for Oracle Linux 6 (the OL7 build will come later). I can't say exactly, because of rules, but it's pretty soon. Like days/weeks.

> Thanks again for the information, I had kicked off a “latest” sync and did notice it was HUGE. I’ve since cancelled it, I’ll take your advice and add in all the patch channels.

Some more general advice: use ULN only for the base/patch channels (and the non-open Oracle channels like Ksplice, when you get access to them). The rest of the channels you should sync from yum.oracle.com <http://yum.oracle.com/> because it's hosted on the Akamai CDN and is much, much faster. The actual content is identical and can be validated via GPG signatures.

Cheers,
Avi

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