[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk Channel layout and storage?

[Lachlan Musicman]

And then, if I want to add a new channel - say for SLURM, should I add the
repos to the SLURM channel (multiplying hosting), or create new child
channels (mulitplying names....)



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On 18 March 2016 at 15:01, Lachlan Musicman <datakid at gmail.com> wrote:

> How do people layer their Channels?
>
> I am finding that because Channels can't have the same name as other
> channels, and they are built top down rather than bottom up, that I have to
> come up with a new Centos Base name for each channel?
>
> Am I missing something?
>
> For eg, I have 3 system types (for *example*):
>
>  - base Centos 7
>
>  - Spacewalk server = base Centos7 channel + Spacewalk server channel
>
>  - other server = base Centos 7 channel + Spacewalk client channel
>
>
> But since base Centos 7 is already a parent, I can't put it into the
> Spacewalk server parent channel.
>
> I can, I guess, subscribe spacewalk-server parent channel to the
> appropriate repos, but if I then sync against all those repos, am I
> multiplying the number of times I'm hosting the same file set?
>
> Cheers
> L.
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> The most dangerous phrase in the language is, "We've always done it this
> way."
>
> - Grace Hopper
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