I'm enjoying the discussion so far. We handle this type of scenario using Puppet. The machines get the packages and updates from Spacewalk with Puppet telling them which packages to get and whether or not they should always be at the latest version.
Perhaps this capability could be part of the Puppet entry in: https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/TheRoadmap#FutureIdeas -----Original Message----- From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Colin Coe Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 6:40 AM To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Assigning packages to a group Hmm, ISWYM. My take on this is that groups is the wrong place to do this. For example, at a previous site we had groups for distro version (RHEL3,4&5), arch (i386, x86_64) and role (workstation, HPC node, server). All machines were in at least these groups. My workstation was in the workstation, x86_64 and rhel5 groups. So, I get what you're saying, just having troubles imagining how this could be done sanely with groups. It needs to be remembered that while we all use the Spacewalk/Satellite features (like groups and custom info keys), we use them differently in a lot of cases. How stuff gets implemented needs to bare this in mind. Just my 0.015 cents (and with KRudd at the helm, it'll be worth even less soon). CC On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 7:07 PM, John Hodrien <j.h.hodr...@leeds.ac.uk> wrote: > On Fri, 21 May 2010, Colin Coe wrote: > >> Can you not have a software channel with the alpine RPM and subscribe >> 'Group A' systems to said software channel? That way they'll get >> updates to the package as well. >> >> I'd use the activation key as well. > > Have a group gets you updates, but it doesn't get you additions. > > So you end up having to add package X to the activation key, and doing an > install to all machines in the group. It'd be quite nice if there was an > easy > way of doing that. Something like System Groups, Packages, Add Packages, > IYSWIM. Then you'd just have to add the package to the group, and it'd be > installed on all machines in the group and on any new members to the group. > > jh > > _______________________________________________ > Spacewalk-list mailing list > Spacewalk-list@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list > -- RHCE#805007969328369 _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list