+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #801578 +++ Looking at the list of cmdline options in the new spacewalk-clone-by-date tool, I don't see anything security-related. Is there any chance of being able to add a --security option that would apply only security errata, but would also pull in any necessary dependencies? In particular, an example I ran into was for security updates to the rhn-client-tools that required a non-security package, python-dmidecode. This would allow for creating a security-only errata clone that would have no dependency breaks when applied to the client.
Committed to Spacewalk master: 1986c8a6ca64545c8f711d78e4e189f567c25694
Moving ON_QA. Packages that address this bugzilla should now be available in yum repos at http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/nightly/
Spacewalk 1.8 has been released: https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/ReleaseNotes18