User manual REDHAT NETWORK SATELLITE 5.2 CHANNEL MANAGEMENT

[. . . ] Red Hat Network Satellite 5. 2 Channel Management Guide Red Hat Network Satellite Channel Management Guide Red Hat Network Satellite 5. 2 Channel Management Guide Red Hat Network Satellite Edition 5. 2 1. Base Channels and Child Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Subscribing to Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Channel Availability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] 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. 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 reassociated 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. Refer to Chapter 6, Uploading and Maintaining Custom Packages for instructions. Once uploaded, packages may be reassigned through the website, as described in Section 4. 6, "Assigning Packages to Software Channels". Channels are created on the Red Hat Network website as follows: 1. Log in to the Red Hat Network website as a Channel Administrator. On the top navigation bar, click the Channels tab and then click the Manage Software Channels button on the left navigation bar. On the Software Channel Management page, click create new software channel at the top-right corner. [. . . ] Note that source packages are special in that their versions are never compared to each other. Their newness -n, --count N_HEADERS_PER_CALL -l, --list -r, -reldirRELATIVE_DIRECTORY -o, --orgidORGANIZATION_ID -u , --username USERNAME -p , --password PASSWORD -s, --stdin -X, --exclude GLOB --force --nosig --new-cache --newest 25 Chapter 6. Uploading and Maintaining Custom Packages Option Description 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. [. . . ]