On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:06:13PM +0100, James Hogarth wrote: > Hmm I was hoping to avoid redoing my activation keys, kickstarts and > system subscriptions (after all with a clone the channel ID will > change) by just moving them....
Yeah, it is slightly annoying. We tend to move our systems piecemeal between releases over the course of a week or two so distributions necessarily coexist for a period. It also means we don't experience the pain of changing loads of systems subscriptions at once, just one or two a day which is easily accomplished through system set manager. We don't use cobbler for install so amending kickstarts is not required in our case[1] and we only have 3 activation keys so that's simple to deal with too. > I can knock out something for the API perhaps and submit it but I was > hoping Jan or Mirov would have some insight on how easy this would be > or if it would bring a mountain of horribleness down on my head.... > > My base channel and update channel for centos of centos_5.4 and > centos_5.4_update I'm regretting now as I could have just emptied it > of packages and resync'd them to the new paths upstream.... but it > looks like changing a channel label would be worse than changing the > parent channel ID in the database so far as potential corruptions and > where they are used... Can't help with that I'm afraid! Regards, [1] Our external kickstarts reference yum repositories which track the latest release anyway. -- David Nutter Tel: +44 (0)131 650 4888 BioSS, JCMB, King's Buildings, Mayfield Rd, EH9 3JZ. Scotland, UK Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland (BioSS) is formally part of The Scottish Crop Research Institute (SCRI), a registered Scottish charity No. SC006662 _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
