User manual REDHAT NETWORK 4.0.5 CHANNEL MANAGEMENTT GUIDE

[. . . ] Red Hat Network 4. 0. 5 Channel Management Guide Red Hat Network 4. 0. 5: Channel Management Guide Copyright © 2002 - 2005 Red Hat, Inc. Red Hat, Inc. 1801 Varsity Drive Raleigh NC 27606-2072 USA Phone: +1 919 754 3700 Phone: 888 733 4281 Fax: +1 919 754 3701 PO Box 13588 Research Triangle Park NC 27709 USA channel-mgmt(EN)-4. 0. 5-RHI (2005-06-30T16:20) Copyright © 2005 by Red Hat, Inc. This material may be distributed only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Open Publication License, V1. 0 or later (the latest version is presently available at http://www. opencontent. org/openpub/). Distribution of substantively modified versions of this document is prohibited without the explicit permission of the copyright holder. [. . . ] Click Confirm to complete the action. Important This list differs from the package list available through the standard Software Channel Details page in that it displays all versions of a package remaining in the database, rather than just the latest. You may revert to a previous version of a package simply by removing the latest version. · Add -- Enables the addition of packages to the channel. To see available packages, select an option from the View dropdown menu and click View. To add packages to the channel you are editing, select the appropriate checkboxes and click Add Packages. Refer to Section 4. 6 Assigning Packages to Software Channels for a discussion of this process. Compare -- Enables the comparison of package lists between different channels. To see the differences, select another channel from the Compare to: dropdown menu and click Compare. A list appears showing all packages not contained by both channels and indicating the existing channel location of each. · Chapter 4. Custom Channel and Package Management 17 4. 4. Manage Software Packages In addition to adding and removing packages within channels, you also have the option of deleting packages entirely from both the database and file system. Removal from the file system is delayed by about one hour. This can be done through the Software Package Management page, accessed by clicking Manage Software Packages on the left navigation bar. Warning Although deleting packages from the database can be undone by uploading them again, they lose their association with any errata. Upon reloading, they must be re-associated with errata manually. Refer to Chapter 5 Custom Errata Management for instructions. To remove packages from the database, in the Software Package Management page, select an option containing them from the View dropdown menu and click View. Then select the appropriate checkboxes and click Delete Packages. A confirmation page appears with the packages listed. Click Confirm to delete the packages entirely. Since the actual packages are stored on the RHN Proxy Server, its custom packages cannot be downloaded through the RHN website, although they are listed. They must be retrieved by the client system using up2date. Since the RHN Satellite Server provides its own website, its custom packages are accessible via HTTP or Red Hat Update Agent. To obtain custom packages, the client system must be subscribed to the channel containing the packages. 4. 5. Creating a Software Channel Before uploading packages to the server, a custom channel can be created to house them. [. . . ] Uploading and Maintaining Custom Packages Description Push only the packages that are newer than those on the server. Note that source packages are special in that their versions are never compared to each other. Their newness is dependent on their associated binary packages. Using this option with RHN Push and just a source package does upload the package, but the source package does not appear in the RHN Web interface until the associated binary package has been uploaded. [. . . ]