Michiel van Es wrote: > Hi Justin, > > I did not set a universal key. > Only a centos 5 channel key. > When I look at child channels I see: > > Any system registered using this activation key will be subscribed to > the selected child channels. > > The following child channels of centos5 can be associated with this > activation key. > > And then the epel_centos5 child channel selected. > Can I Unselect it? > > On the old spacewalk server none of the child channels are selected but > on the new spacewalk server (0.7) the child channel is selected and so > all centos 5 clients get default the epel repo as child channel with > them. (which I dont't want) > > Kind regards, > > Michiel
Hi Michiel, You should be able to unselect the child channel by holding ctrl and clicking on the currently selected child channel. -Justin > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] 2 small questions > From: Justin Sherrill <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Date: 01/06/2010 09:01 PM > >> Michiel van Es wrote: >>> Hi I got 2 questions: >>> >>> 1) >>> I have a new spacewalk server where I have a main centos 5 i386 channel >>> and below the main channel a epel repo for centos 5. >>> Whenever I subscribe a node to the CentoS 5 main channel, it >>> automatically inherits it;s child : the epel repository. >>> How can I disable this feature or whay shoulde be done to let nodes only >>> subsribe to the main centos 5 channel but not it's child channels? >>> >> >> By default a system won't be auto-subscribed to the child channel. Are >> you sure you don't have the child channel specified in the activation >> key you are registering with? >> >> Also make sure you don't have an activation key set to be universal >> default. >> >>> 2) >>> Is it possible to use yum priorities through spacewalk? >>> So you can say that the main channel packages always overrule the child >>> packages? >>> Or must this be done through the client's yum priorties package? >> >> this doesn't currently work. There is a bugzilla open on it though: >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515720 >> >> -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
