In a previous job, we had a requirement to keep all clients at RHEL5.8. To do this we created a static RHEL5 channel with nothing subscribed to it, and it was sync'd nightly. Then we created clone channels using spacewalk-clone-by-date. Once the clone channel was created.. we refreshed it daily with only security errata using the -o option for spacewalk-clone-by-date. You can also use --blacklist to exclude particular packages. I think that might be your best option, as I assume you want to continue getting new security Errata's, but prevent upgrading to the next minor version.
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 9:55 PM, Waldirio Manhães Pinheiro < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello friends, good morning > > I've one doubt and would like to share with you to get feedback about what > should be a best practice about it. For any reasons, in different > environments we have to create a freeze channel, for example RHEL or CentOS > 6.2. > > What do you recommend !?, Create a freezed channel using a release date > from specific version or use a date before the next release ?! Let'me > explain with example, the version of RHEL 6.2 was delivered in 2011-12-06 > (OS without erratas) and the version 6.2 complete with all erratas was in > 2012-06-19 (one day before next version). > > > Release/Update General Availability Date redhat-release Errata Date* Kernel > Version RHEL 6 Update 6 TBA TBA > TBA RHEL 6 Update 5 2013-11-21 2013-11-20 RHSA-2013:1645-2 > <https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1645.html> 2.6.32-431 RHEL 6 > Update 4 2013-02-21 2013-02-21 RHSA-2013-0496 > <https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0496.html> 2.6.32-358 RHEL 6 > Update 3 2012-06-20 2012-06-19 RHSA-2012-0862 > <http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0862.html> 2.6.32-279 RHEL 6 > Update 2 2011-12-06 2011-12-06 RHEA-2011:1743 > <http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2011-1743.html> 2.6.32-220 RHEL 6 > Update 1 2011-05-19 2011-05-19 RHEA-2011:0540 > <http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2011-0540.html> 2.6.32-131.0.15 RHEL > 6 GA 2010-11-09 - 2.6.32-71 > Link to check dates - https://access.redhat.com/articles/3078 > > What do you recommend about this procedure ?! > > Appreciate your comments. > > > -- > ______________ > B'Regards > Waldirio > msn: [email protected] > Skype: waldirio > Site: www.waldirio.com.br > Blog: blog.waldirio.com.br > LinkedIn: http://br.linkedin.com/pub/waldirio-pinheiro/22/b21/646 > PGP: www.waldirio.com.br/public.html > > _______________________________________________ > Spacewalk-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list >
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