[Spacewalk-list] Need to setup monthly patching - while keeping base release frozen.

[Sebastian Meyer]

Hi Michael,

On 12.01.2017 21:36, Shaw, Michael wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I walked into an environment that had no frozen channels and monthly patching happened by whatever was available in the channel at the time, i.e. if there was a kernel upgrade then the kernel upgraded.  This has ended up causing issues.
> 
> I have since then locked all of the hosts and created base OS channels, i.e. RHEL5.11, RHEL6.8, RHEL7.1, RHEL7.2, etc.  I have also started creating a monthly patch channels but how can I merge the channels?
> 
> I need to keep the hosts at certain release level, i.e. RHEL7.2, but still apply monthly patches.  It doesn't seem like there is a straight forward way to do this?

You do realize that Red Hat just updates the latest minor release till
some point in time when they decide, okay that's now our new minor
release? Then there won't be any new updates for the old minor release.

You could look into the EUS channels where minor releases get updates
for up to 24 months: https://access.redhat.com/articles/rhel-eus

Regards
Sebastian

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mike
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