That’s the expected behavior of the spacewalk-create-channel tool as far as I can tell. The tool reads files in /usr/share/rhn/channel_data to determine the RPM list that was create at issue date of a particular release (RHEL 6 Update 6 for example). The tool will only work on channels that were on the distribution ISO and it looks like there’s some hidden syntactic sugar as well (from my local testing). So you get only the package published at the time of release, no updates.
If you want to clone a channel and all the errata, you’re probably better off looking at spacewalk-clone-by-date. You can provide a date to clone errata up to, and you can clone channels that aren’t part of the ISO (like rhn-tools). The syntax is pretty simple spacewalk-clone-by-date –l RHT-channel my-channel –d DATE is the basics, and you can automate it with a config file (-m will print a sample file). I wrote about using the tool for work: http://blogs.dlt.com/content-workflow-rhn-satellite/ HTH, Matt Matt Micene DLT Solutions Solution Architect RHCA# 100-002-435 Direct 703-773-1195 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Darryl Baker Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 3:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Cloning channel from script I’ve been playing a bit with the spacewalk-create-channel command. Two things I’ve noticed: You must specify the update level and there is no way that I can find to just select the “latest update.” Then once I make the clone the GUI shows no errata in the new channel whereas when I make the clone through the RHSS console the channel has a list of them. I would like to just say the latest update and see the errata attached to the clone. Anyone have any thoughts? Regards, Darryl From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Darryl Baker Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 9:12 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Cloning channel from script I’m only doing a few hundred machines at the moment but we are growing fast. Scripts to modify the channels systems are using as well as making the channel clones would be great. Thank you for offering. If You would post the collection to GitHub, please. Regards, Darryl From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Franky Van Liedekerke Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 1:04 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Cloning channel from script I have several perl scripts that do all that: create new cloned channels, subscribe servers to the new channels, update kickstart profiles and activation keys. Even a extra web interface in php and perl crontab to manage the patching of thousands of servers via spacewalk. If interested, I can put them on github ... Franky Darryl Baker <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> schreef op 11 mei 2015 17:08:53 CEST: I’m using Red Hat Satellite 5.7. Each month I clone the distribution channels so I can have sets of machines at the identical patch level and those patches can be worked through the testing cycle before being applied in production. Currently I am doing this manually through the GUI. A mindless, time consuming thing. I would like to set up scripts to do this for me. Any clues on how to do this will be much appreciated. Regards, Darryl Baker Textura Corporation Linux Engineer Application Support 1405 Lake Cook Road Deerfield, Illinois 60015 Office Phone - 847-235-8467 Email – [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [Image removed by sender. cid:05DC2306-1083-4864-A07C-DE5DA45A6302] ________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
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