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

2017-01-13 Thread Rick van der Linde
(kickstart) to provide up to level deployments. Hope this may help you. Rick  -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Afzender: Shaw, Michael <ms...@rti.org> Verstuurd: Donderdag 12 Januari 2017 21:52 Aan: spacewalk-list@redhat.com Onderwerp: [Spacewalk-list] Need to setup monthly pa

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

2017-01-12 Thread 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

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

2017-01-12 Thread J Epperson
I retired a bit more than a year ago, so I don't have scripting details to share, but here's a conceptual outline of how we did it. Had the same situation when we first deployed spacewalk/Satellite. We (okay, I) created RHSA-test and RHSA-prod patch channels for each base OS. Scripted forced

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

2017-01-12 Thread William H. ten Bensel
}Base -> Frozen at Date {y} dev-Base -> test-Base -> prod-Base -> We do the same with child channels Thanks and good luck From: "Shaw, Michael" <ms...@rti.org> To: "spacewalk-list@redhat.com" <spacewalk-list@redhat.com> Date: 01/12/2017

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

2017-01-12 Thread Shaw, Michael
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