User manual REDHAT NETWORK SATELLITE 5.1.0 CHANNEL MANAGEMENT

[. . . ] Red Hat Network Satellite Channel Management Guide 5. 1. 0 5. 1 ISBN: N/A Publication date: Red Hat Network Satellite Red Hat Network Satellite: Channel Management Guide 5. 1. 0 Copyright © 2008 Red Hat, Inc. Copyright © 2008 Red Hat, Inc. This material may only be distributed subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Open Publication License, V1. 0 or later with the restrictions noted below (the latest version of the OPL 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. Distribution of the work or derivative of the work in any standard (paper) book form for commercial purposes is prohibited unless prior permission is obtained from the copyright holder. [. . . ] Subsequent clones of the same advisory have their second letters sequenced to denote their order, such as "CM" and "CN". Refer to Section 2, "Managed Errata Details" for instructions. In addition to the Merge option, previously cloned errata contain values within the Owned Errata column. The pub and mod flags within parentheses identify whether the cloned erratum has been published or modified from the original advisory. A plus sign + before the flag indicates affirmative, the cloned errata has been published. To find out more about publishing and editing custom errata, refer to Section 1, "Manage Errata". To exclude errata from the cloned channel, select Do Nothing from their dropdown menus. 15 Chapter 4. Custom Channel and Package Management When satisfied with the changes, click Clone Errata. Review the impending changes on the confirmation page and click Update Errata. · Packages -- Provides the packages associated with each of your custom channels. This tab contains subtabs that allow you to view, add, and remove packages: List/Remove, Add, and Compare. · List/Remove -- Displays all of the packages currently associated with the custom channel and provides a means to cancel that association. To remove packages from the channel, select their checkboxes and click Remove Packages on the bottom right-hand corner of the page. 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 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. 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. [. . . ] The username and password are cached in ~/. rhnpushcache for a limited time, five minutes being the default. Read package list from standard input, for example from a piped ls command. Force upload of a package, even if a package of that name and version currently exists in the channel. Without this option, uploading a pre-existing package returns an error. [. . . ]