On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 22:28:07 -0500 Paul Robert Marino <prmari...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure if I should classify this as bug or an rfe but either > way ill put in a ticket tommorow. I ran into an intresting problem. > There is a common case where you have for example centos channels and > scientific linux channels where you may have different packages with > the same name in different base channels. > It would be nice to be able to publish a single errata with multiple > base channels from different distros that could cover them all but > what I've found in testing is there seems to be no way to do that > safely. When you try to do that the package from one channel gets > published into the other resulting in a duplicate package in the > other channels the first one being the original package for that > distro the second being the package from the first channel. > This is actually a common problem and complaint for most of the > errata sync scripts. The resultt is it breaks yum and by extention > anacondas ability to use the channel. > After a bit of investigation I found it was a limitation of the api, I > haven't dug into the database yet but. This is something that needs > investigation because it would eleviate a lot of the dificulties > users have with the errata sync scripts. Why try to "combine" errata's from different distro's? It seems like a very bad idea: one should know for which distro/base channel the errata is. And a CentOS errata might totally not be related to a redhat errata, even if it has the same name (the packages might be different). The way I coded it up: get a list of packages per channel and then compare these with the ones mentioned in the errata. Easy and simple ... of course I only do one-on-one channel errata sync, but it never failed me yet. For those interested (shameless adv): one errata script for both redhat and/or centos errata sync's, without cross contamination issues and with proxy support (but only one channel at the time): https://github.com/liedekef/spacewalk_scripts Franky _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-devel mailing list Spacewalk-devel@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-devel
