Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 63715
[RFE] Filter for RHN_Register or UP2DATE -p
Last modified: 2015-01-07 18:56:01 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461; Pajo Networks; .NET CLR 1.0.3705) Description of problem: The one component that is missing in my opinion with both the RHN_REGISTER and UP2DATE -p component of the update agent system is the ability to limit what we send you when we register packages with your servers. What I am asking for is a filter to "block" your servers from learning about packages I have installed. This list can be derived either by "file" name or an attribue inside of the RPM package itself. This comes from the fact that on our servers (and workstations) there are times we install a large group of files that we dont need REDHAT knowing about. If we decinded in the furtue to show you then fine. A good example is a workstation running Ximian Gnome. They [ximian] replace a massive amount of files for Gnome from GTK to Gnome-Libs, they prefix the FILENAME with *- ximian.rpm. So it would be nice to set up a filter that states something like: up2date -p --ignorefilename *-ximian.rpm. This would allow us to update with RedCarpet (ximain gnome updater) and RHN for Redhat specific. Furthermore, we have many "3rd" party software apps that we dont need you to know about. It keeps the list of erratas and updates > 0 on your RHN site. If there is a way now, please let me know. Thanks, Alex Paoli (alex.paoli@pajo.com) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.It is a WISH 2. 3. Additional info:
The rhn_regsiter client allows you to select which packages you want to send info about (there is a checklist, you can uncheck any packages that you dont want us to know about). However, not sending the info to the server prevents us from being able to do proactive notification of updates. Also, that only changes what info we store. So I dont think this will solve the ximian-on-redhat dep solving issues. Basically, the ximian packages arent compatiable with ours, and that breaks dep solving in big ways. Especically in cases where our updates involves updating soemthing that is also provided by ximian, which is fairly common. I'm not sure if I understand how 3rd party apps would cause the errata list to be greater than 0. Since we dont have updates for the 3rd party apps, they should ever cause an errata to be flagged as needed.
It would be useful to be able to match skip patterns on version or release "numbers". Then skipping things with "*ximian*" in the release number would work.
Current solution is to buy a proxy or satellite. Closing.