The way I address this (with Satellite, not Spacewalk, but it works the same) is to make separate software channels (i.e. sandbox, beta, devel, production). I move all new updates into sandbox. Then I move them into beta and devel. After we're satisfied with them, we put them in the production software channel.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:spacewalk-list- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Robert Marino > Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 4:51 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] "Whitelisting" certain RPMs > > 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 _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
