[Spacewalk-list] SPACEWALK: How to apply only specific packages on all subscribed clients!

[neeraj tiwari]

Hi Michael,
I tried to do the same as you suggested, i want to apply only kernel upgrade to my servers, so i created a repository with the kernel pakcage URL and made a channel subscribed to it, but while running channel sync its throwing below error:-


2018/03/05 17:18:55 +05:30 Command: ['/usr/bin/spacewalk-repo-sync', '--channel', 'centos6_paytm_q1', '--type', 'yum']
2018/03/05 17:18:55 +05:30 Sync of channel started.
2018/03/05 17:18:55 +05:30 Repo URL: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6.9/updates/x86_64/Packages/kernel-2.6.32-696.20.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
17:28:01 ERROR: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: centos6_Q1_kernel. Please verify its path and try again
2018/03/05 17:28:01 +05:30 ERROR: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: centos6_Q1_kernel. Please verify its path and try again
2018/03/05 17:28:01 +05:30 ERROR: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: centos6_Q1_kernel. Please verify its path and try again
2018/03/05 17:28:02 +05:30 Sync of channel completed in 0:09:06.
17:28:02 Sync of channel completed in 0:09:06.
17:28:02 Total time: 0:09:06



 

    On Monday 26 February 2018, 4:31:35 PM IST, Michael Mraka <michael.mraka at redhat.com> wrote:  
 
 neeraj tiwari:
> Hi All,
> We want to apply specific patches to all the systems registered in spacewalk, as of now spacewalk is showing me all the updates which are available from centos mirrors, but i want only kernel-, and other critical packages only. Is there any way to create a global package profile and apply only those packages on all the servers/ or set of servers? Because going to each server and selecting manually is a bit time consuming process, Kindly help! 

Hello neeraj,

You can create custom channel and "clone" only specific packages from CentOS
to it. Then re-register your clients from origianl CentOS channel to the
custom and let them update from this channel.

Regards,

--
Michael Mráka
System Management Engineering, Red Hat

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