[Spacewalk-list] Ex-SCCM admin has a question!

[Steve Meier]

Hi Jody,

Am 2019-03-06 18:47, schrieb Jody McIvor:
> Hi All,
> 
> I first stopped into the IRC but it was a ghost town. Hopefully not
> so, here

this mailing-list is quite active ;-)

> In SCCM (Its been a while), if I added a package/app/etc, any asset
> subscribed to the parent of that package would eventually
> automatically receive it. My question about Spacewalk is, if I put an
> app on spacewalk under a main software channel, will it eventually
> force that app to all subscribed systems, or will they only receive
> once I schedule it to be pushed to selected systems (SSM)? Basically
> wondering if its safe/normal practice to have two systems subscribed
> to one channel, adding an app to that channel and having it only
> installed onto one of said two systems.

Channels in Spacewalk work like normal repositories do. They make 
software
packages available to the clients that are subscribed to them.

There is no such thing as an automatic package installation with 
Spacewalk.
So you can put new packages and even multiple versions of the same 
package
into a channel. These will become available to the client(s) but you 
have to
trigger the installation.

Kind regards,
   Steve