Re: [Spacewalk-list] Channels vs. Repos

2015-08-26 Thread Sebastian Meyer
Hi Brian, in production you don't want to push all updated packages manually into channels. That's what repos are for: Upstream CentOS releases an update, that's in the repo and get's synced automatically into your channel. Otherwise you would have to keep tabs on all your distributions and check

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Channels vs. Repos

2015-08-26 Thread Kobus Bensch
Hi I use channels with repos for up stream access to centos and updates released by centos. I also have channels with no repos. These channels are usually for rpm packages we build or for packages from suppliers that do not have a repo. For exampl when you download an rpm from a supplier.

[Spacewalk-list] Channels vs. Repos

2015-08-26 Thread Brian C . Huffman
All, I'm just getting started with spacewalk and I followed on online guide to set up channels and repos for CentOS systems.  But then I found out that I can also add packages to the channel itself with no underlying repo.  So, what's the benefit of having repos?  What scenarios would