Like I said, happy to be wrong and learn something new.  But, when Red Hat 
releases a new minor point release like 7.4 to 7.5, package updates are not 
provided for 7.4 unless you are using EUS.  You can pin to a minor version 
using subscription-manaher until the cows come home. If that minor version repo 
is no longe4 receiving updates, there's nothing more to "update".
If that was the case, there would be no need for EUS repos. We'd all just stay 
on whatever iteration of 7.* we needed and expect Red Hat to continue to 
provide minor version updates. But Red Hat does not do that.
From Red Hat's "Red Hat Linux Life Cycle" page 
(https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/) and "Extended Update 
Support", specifically:
"Under a Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription, all available RHSAs and RHBAs 
are provided for the current active minor release until the availability of the 
next minor release."


Aaron [email protected]+1.904.422.1545 (M)
-------- Original message --------From: Kodiak Firesmith <[email protected]> 
Date: 1/11/19  3:27 PM  (GMT-05:00) To: "aaron.t.wyllie" 
<[email protected]> Cc: Ben Stanley <[email protected]>, 
Venkataramana Bora <[email protected]>, Donal Keane <[email protected]>, 
pulp-list <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Pulp-list] RHEL repo version 
lock using pulp 
Hrm - I may be insulated from the worst of Red Hat's volume licensing due to 
being at an EDU, but I thought all paid customers could pin to a minor release 
for the first 24 months after release of the minor version...

On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 3:26 PM aaron.t.wyllie <[email protected]> wrote:
Fair enough but you have to already be using EUS to take advantage of that.  
What I described is the Red Hat "approved" method of version pinning when EUS 
is not in use.  Even Kodiak's suggestion will result in a repo that stopped 
receiving updates on 04/09/2018 unless you're using EUS and syncing the RHEL 
7.4 EUS repo.
Happy to be 100% wrong here but I have yet to see to it otherwise or suggested 
otherwise when I spoke with Red Hat about the exact subject.
-------- Original message --------From: Ben Stanley <[email protected]> 
Date: 1/11/19  2:47 PM  (GMT-05:00) To: "aaron.t.wyllie" 
<[email protected]>, Kodiak Firesmith <[email protected]>, 
Venkataramana Bora <[email protected]> Cc: Donal Keane 
<[email protected]>, pulp-list <[email protected]> Subject: Re: 
[Pulp-list] RHEL repo version lock using pulp 


This approach of locking the repo before the new release will fail to get 
updates for the old version. 
I advise to use Kodiak's method of examining the entitlements and finding the 
proper version locked repo names. Then you will receive the proper updates for 
each version. 




On 12 January 2019 4:09:49 am "aaron.t.wyllie" <[email protected]> wrote:

Replied earlier from my work address but I think it may be blocked.  Anyways ...
You could do what Kodiak suggests but that will involve syncing another set of 
repositories.
An alternative would be to create a content view pinned to the day before RHEL 
7.5 was released; 04/09/2018 as RHEL 7.5 was released 04/10/2018.  Do that for 
all required RHEL 7 repositories and add them to a CCV and call it done.
You could also look at subscription-manager on the managed client-side and 
configure the pin-to-release to 7.4 and see how that works.  I've never done 
that but mainly because I always worry someone might come behind me and unset 
it ...
Aaron [email protected]+1.904.422.1545 (M)
-------- Original message --------From: Kodiak Firesmith <[email protected]> 
Date: 1/11/19  11:41 AM  (GMT-05:00) To: Venkataramana Bora 
<[email protected]> Cc: Donal Keane <[email protected]>, pulp-list 
<[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Pulp-list] RHEL repo version lock using 
pulp 
To lock to 7.4, you'd want to sync 7.4 CDN channels to dedicated 7.4 Pulp 
repos.  Use 'rct cat-cert' to look for 7.4 specific channels to mirror. - Kodiak
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 11:02 AM Venkataramana Bora <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Team, would like to know, on Pulp servers is there any possibility to create 
 a specific version (say RHEL 7.4) only repository  using  cdn.redhat.com feed? 
Right now  we are using below Redhat 7 feeds our pulp servers , but that is 
updating to latest RHEL7.6 from 7.4  We have a requirement now where we need to 
have RHEL7.4 repo that should not be updated to latest RHEL7.x  but we like to 
have latest RHEL7.4 security updates only using a that Pulp repo. Kindly please 
let us know if there is any possibility of specific version lock pulp repo or 
not. Thanks a lot in advance !

Pulp_repo rhel-7-server-rpms-x86_64 feed: 
'https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/7/7Server/x86_64/os'.
pulp_repo rhel-7-server-extras-rpms-x86_64 feed: 
'https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/7/7Server/x86_64/extras/os'
pulp_repo rhel-7-server-optional-rpms-x86_64 
feed:'https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/7/7Server/x86_64/optional/os'


Our Pulp slave servers are with version pulp-server-2.11.2-1.el6 and  master 
Pulp server is 2.16.




Sincerely,
Venkataramana Bora
IBM Visakha Hills
Visakhapatnam – 530 045, India



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