A month ago I installed spacewalk to use instead of mrepo. That way we should be able to manage our rpm repositories much easier. It works nicely, we now have a good overview of what machines are behind in their updates and what the updates are. patching them is just a few clicks. it saves time.
But it also doesn't do a few things I thought it would:
- no ability to select specific packages. so the yum.repo.d include and exclude commands are not supported
- no ability to 'progress' packages from one repo to another. so if our centos-updates repository is updated every night and we use it to update our DTAP street, then we run the risk of deploying newer packages to P than we did to D because the repo is by then newer. So we need to sync by hand instead.
But it also doesn't do a few things I thought it would:
- no ability to select specific packages. so the yum.repo.d include and exclude commands are not supported
- no ability to 'progress' packages from one repo to another. so if our centos-updates repository is updated every night and we use it to update our DTAP street, then we run the risk of deploying newer packages to P than we did to D because the repo is by then newer. So we need to sync by hand instead.
