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Document URL: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Satellite/5.7/html-single/Getting_Started_Guide/index.html Section Number and Name: Depends on internal needs. It's related to Kickstart, but based around the idea of the Parent/Child Channel. Describe the issue: During Kickstart installations, the Parent, or base, channel, isn't used. So it is considered less a channel and more a way of grouping child channels. Suggestions for improvement: This needs to be made explicit. For example, if you have a base or Parent channel called "centos_7" you need to have a child channel called "centos_7_base" which has the Base packages available. If you do not have this set up, the kickstarted installation will fail with the message: You have requested that the package 'x' should be installed. This package does not exist. Would you like to ignore this package and continue with the installation?' (in this case x= hwloc-devel, but I think that's irrelevant' - if I answer yes, it just asks for every package)
Note the resulting bug IDs for the impact: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1713283 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1758286
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