An other alternative I've been considering is having two spacewalk servers one in a QA environment and a second in production. Then once my builds and updates pass QA testing using inter satellite sync to push the changes into production.
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 8:05 AM, Dimitri Yioulos <[email protected]> wrote: > :-( > > Thanks, Michael. > > > On Thursday 08 August 2013 5:16:36 am Michael Mraka wrote: >> Dimitri Yioulos wrote: >> % Good morning (at least where I am), list. >> % >> % On some of my CentOS servers, there are certain >> packages % installed. mainly as dependencies, for which, >> % unfortunately, there are seldom updates for them, or >> the % updates won't work with the main packages. >> Examples are % perl-Digest-SHA and libyaml. So, when >> doing general % updates on those servers via yum, one >> would use % the --exclude switch. What I've done is >> whitelisted those % packages in yum.conf, so as to avoid >> having to use the % switch. I hope I explained that >> clearly. >> % >> % Regarding Spacewalk, is it possible to also whitelist >> those % packages so that under System Overview, the >> affected % systems don't show as needing to update the >> packages? >> >> Hi Dimitri, >> >> Nope, there's no way to simply suppress reporting this >> packages in webUI. >> >> The complex solution to this could be cloning the channel >> without excluded packages and subscribing clients to the >> cloned channel. >> >> Regards, >> >> -- >> Michael Mráka >> Satellite Engineering, Red Hat >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Spacewalk-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list > > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > > _______________________________________________ > Spacewalk-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
