Try and utilize the command lines.
spacewalk-clone-by-date
!!!RESTART TASKOMATIC!!!! before running this:
/usr/bin/spacewalk-manage-channel-lifecycle -c $fromchnl --no-children
--promote
Base -> Always updating from the public repo's
date{x}Base -> Frozen at Date {x}
*Note, some 3rd party apps require certain kernels etc. So, if
needed, have a distro associated with this and a kickstart... Just make
sure kickstart doesn't run "yum update -y"
You can still activate to the dev/test/prod channels via
activation keys. Just as long as yum update is not ran afterwards, that
would break the apps.
To handle that you can during build time put in something like
patch=NO...
Then in the kickstart "cat /proc/cmdline /tmp/cmdline."
If [[ ! `grep "patch=NO" /tmp/cmdline` ]]; then yum update -y; fi
date{y}Base -> Frozen at Date {y}
dev-Base ->
test-Base ->
prod-Base ->
We do the same with child channels
Thanks and good luck
From: "Shaw, Michael" <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date: 01/12/2017 02:53 PM
Subject: [Spacewalk-list] Need to setup monthly patching - while
keeping base release frozen.
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Hello,
I walked into an environment that had no frozen channels and monthly
patching happened by whatever was available in the channel at the time,
i.e. if there was a kernel upgrade then the kernel upgraded. This has
ended up causing issues.
I have since then locked all of the hosts and created base OS channels,
i.e. RHEL5.11, RHEL6.8, RHEL7.1, RHEL7.2, etc. I have also started
creating a monthly patch channels but how can I merge the channels?
I need to keep the hosts at certain release level, i.e. RHEL7.2, but still
apply monthly patches. It doesn’t seem like there is a straight forward
way to do this?
Regards,
Mike
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RTI International
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