[Spacewalk-list] How to trigger errata warnings for testing purposes?

[Robert Alsdorff]

Am 01.07.2016 14:41, schrieb Eric Herget:
> On 07/01/2016 03:30 AM, Robert Alsdorff wrote:
>> Hey,
>> I'm testing Spacewalk with a bunch of CentOS servers. The CentOS 6, 7 
>> and EPEL 6, 7 repositories are completely synced and I imported the 
>> CentOS errata data from cefs.steve-meier.de via CLI. EPEL errata is 
>> synced by Spacewalk itself. My testing servers were nearly up to date 
>> when I added them to Spacewalk so no errata errors are reported right 
>> now. Is there a way to trigger some kind of demo report? I tried to 
>> create an errata myself that flags a random package as vulnerable to 
>> test the warning features of Spacewalk but did not really understand 
>> the way erratas work.
>> 
>> Any ideas on this?
>> Thanks!
>> 
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> 
> Hi Robert,
> 
> I recently joined the Satellite team and am currently ramping up on
> how to use Spacewalk.  I happened to be working with Errata
> functionality yesterday.  To see the warning notification work I did
> the following...
> 
> At first I had my client system subscribed to a channel configured
> with a repo that already had the version of the package I was using to
> test (and my client system had an earlier version of that package
> installed).  In this case, creating an erratum to identify that
> version of the package and associating the erratum with that same
> channel that already contained the package did not result in the
> notification I was expecting.
> 
> Instead, I unsubscribed the client system from the channel containing
> the newer version package, then created a new channel and subscribed
> my client system to the new channel.  Next, add the erratum to the new
> channel.  Since the erratum is the "cause" of the newer version
> package getting added to the channel, and since my client system had
> an earlier version of the package installed, the notification I
> expected did occur.
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 
> Eric

Hey Eric,

so in theory I could install an old version of package XYZ (a package 
with an existing errata that I imported into Spacewalk) and afterwards 
assign the server to the channel with the imported errata?

Robert