Erling Ringen Elvsrud wrote: > Hello list, > > Previously I have used the Channel-to-update script from > https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/channel-to-update to create a > new channel on Satellite Server for a specific update of RHEL. > A data-file for RHEL 5.4 is not available yet (the datafile contains > the names and version numbers of the spesific pacakges contained in a > given update of RHEL). Using the script causes the channel to contain > a lot less pacakges than cloning the channel from the Base RHEL 5 > channel synchronized with RHN and adding all errata. > > Do you know what advantages either approach has? > Is it any drawback to clone and import all errata and having more > pacakges in the channel? will it have any speed or reliability > implications? > > Thanks, > > Erling > > -- > rhn-satellite-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-satellite-users
Hi Erling, When cloning a channel and including all of the errata, you will get all packages up to the latest. So you would get foo-1.1, foo-1.2, foo-1.3 etc.... When using that script, you only get the exact package set that was included in the update. (i.e. foo-1.2). There really isn't any drawback to having all the packages in the channel. It may make some operations slighly faster, but if you don't have an obscene amount of systems (i.e. > 10,000), you may not notice any difference. The purpose of the script is really to make it easier to control what update level a channel is at. This is not very easy with using the 'clone' errata feature unless you're going to the very latest update. I'll try to update the script today with 5.4 data files. -Justin -- Justin Sherrill, RHCA 1801 Varsity Drive. Software Engineer Raleigh, NC 27603 Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
