Hi,
correct, my base channel is still 5.6 and the updates channel receives patches 
(now at 5.7). Mrepo runs daily (nightly), but I do not rebuild ISOs.
Documentation for setting up mrepo with RHN is here: 
https://github.com/dagwieers/mrepo/blob/master/docs/redhat-network.txt

Also check 
https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/browser/scripts/clone-errata/<https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/browser/scripts/clone-errata/rhn-clone-errata.py>
  for cloning RHN errata into your (Base) channel with rhn-clone-errata.py.

You need to edit chanMap (ca line 455) to match your SPW channel name, but 
apart from that it was not too much work setting up. I did one errata clone 
with -begin-date=<RHEL 5.6 release date> and then I run it nightly with 
--begin-date=<yesterday> to clone new erratas. I only use rhn-clone-errata (not 
spw-clone-errata between local channels, yet).

Martin

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[mailto:[email protected]] På vegne av Pierre Casenove
Sendt: 5. august 2011 07:45
Til: [email protected]
Emne: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Architecture question

Hello,
Thanks for the feedback.
So all your system are in version 5.6 minimum and some subscribe to the updates 
channel, which now contains rhel 5.7 for example. Am I correct?
Could you please point me to some tutorial to setup mrepo and rhn? Do you run 
mrepo and rebuild an iso every night or just once a week?

Thanks,

Pierre

2011/8/4 Martin Eggen <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>

Hi,
I follow the advice on 
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/PackageManagement/Spacewalk also for our RHEL 
systems, that is, I rhnpushed 5.6 to a Base RHEL5 channel and sync updates from 
a yum repo (which uses mrepo to fetch updates from RHN) into a child Updates 
channel. This is probably redundant but I can see some uses for having separate 
channels (allowing some systems to only subscribe to Base for a certain minor 
release). I created similar channels (Base + Updates) for CentOS 5, and one 
child channel under each Base for EPEL.

I experienced some trouble after adding CentOS though, for some reason CentOS 
packages were appearing in my RHEL channels, making clients system complain 
(invalid PGP keys) and not fetching updates.  For the time being I have removed 
the CentOS channels/repos, but will have to make another try later.



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