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

[Rick van der Linde]

Hi,



Currently I use to manage this by a seperate updates channel which syncs with Red Hat on daily base. Important to notice is to setup this in a child channel configuration. The parent (base) channel should contain no packages (or only the baseline packages). On monthly (or other tima base if preferred) the updates channel gets cloned. This clone channel then can be added to the host that needs to gets patched to the level wanted. 



Advantage is that a newer cloend channel can simply be added to host and supersedes the previous cloned channels. Of course it's up to you to clean up older cloned channels (maintenance), which of course can be automated (by spacecmd).



Next to this updates channel I have release channels (for example 7.2) which allows me to deploy hosts on release specific level (if needed). If needed the cloned channels can be added to the deployment (kickstart) to provide up to level deployments.



Hope this may help you.





Rick





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Afzender: Shaw, Michael <mshaw at rti.org>
Verstuurd: Donderdag 12 Januari 2017 21:52
Aan: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Onderwerp: [Spacewalk-list] Need to setup monthly patching - while keeping base release frozen.

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?

 
Regards,

 
Mike

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