Thanks Matthew…this is a very interesting idea to me. One question – can you share with us the steps you take to clone the errata into this channel?
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matthew Madey Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2015 11:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] critical patching outside of your normal patching cycle For this sort of instance, I created a Zero Day patch channel all my systems are subscribed to, and simply clone the critical erratas to this channel as needed. On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Robert Paschedag <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I think I would subscribe the channel, apply the patch and unsubscribe again. Thus should work with action chains.Am 16.06.2015 7:31 nachm. schrieb "Clegg, Larry E [HDS]" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>: > > Greetings Spacewalkers, > > > > I have a process question for you. Here’s the setup: > > > > You have your systems setup in Spacewalk and subscribed to channels that are > frozen in time, e.g. some systems are subscribed the channels with all the > Q2 patches and updates. Other systems may still be subscribed to the Q1 > patches and updates. You have your latest channels that are sync’d with the > vendor’s latest offerings but no systems are subscribed to these “latest” > channels. > > > > Let’s say a vendor (Redhat, Oracle, etc) releases a critical bug fix patch to > their “latest” channel. Let’s say you want to deploy this critical bug fix > asap – even though it is out of step with your quarterly patching cycle. > You have a system that is subscribed to a channel tree that is frozen in > time, for example a system is subscribed to your Q2 patches. You’re not > ready to update everything yet but you do want this one critical bug fix > patch (and any dependencies) to be made available to this system. > > > > How do you go about handling this type of situation? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Larry > > > > Larry Clegg > > HD Supply San Diego > > EMail: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > > _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.redhat.com_mailman_listinfo_spacewalk-2Dlist&d=BQMFaQ&c=_8VcuiJ--MukFqz6Sy5gel64o52_IbhiNdatg8Zb5Gs&r=b7IEz3ofaK6POXcDGRHJcwu-GqbKHox-4tfx-bQLxLo&m=XpReij2FoqEa1j1MfTuHUx0ivBZ6R4_ANVzlgnaGQG0&s=uqKFaivZ1QhNeOkL0WjbKkozP2kc6xdNJ5yXArsD-n8&e=>
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