Re: Accessing more than one channel

Ah, thanks.  I was under the impression that this functionality was here
today after reading a user comment from:
http://www.linuxlaboratory.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=28&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

Setting it up this way is fine.  
Thank you all for the quick replies!


Oh, and thanks for the software :) I was thinking of doing something
similar (on a much smaller scale) using apt, but this looks like a 
better solution.

On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 12:32, Hunter Matthews wrote:
> This is the sub-channel feature of the client, and is not supported in
> any version of Current yet. It may make it into 1.6.0. The dev list
> would be the place to ask/confirm whatever.
> 
> How do people do this today? You list the appropriate redhat update
> directories when you make the main channel.
> 
> So [redhat-8.0-i386]
> has 
> rpm_dirs = /lasdjlja/laksdjlkjad/RPMS
>            /updates/8.0/i386
>            /update/8.0/i586
> 
> etc etc.
> 
> Current will scan ALL those directories, adding the latest version of
> each package to the main channel.
> 
> Sorry - its a feature everyone wants.
> 
> On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 13:23, Mike Esler wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I have a current install on a Redhat 7.3 machine, and I'm testing from a
> > Redhat 8.0 client.
> > 
> > Here is my valid_channels entry in my /etc/current/current.conf file:
> > 
> > valid_channels = redhat-8.0-i386 8.0-updates-i386
> > 
> > I have run cadmin -v create for each one of these entries, and get no
> > errors.  In fact, separately I can see each of these channels from my
> > client.
> > 
> > The problem I'm having is that I never see the channels together, only
> > the first channel is shown on the client.  For example, with the 
> > valid_channels line above, I will only see redhat-8.0-i386 channel when
> > I run up2date from the client.  If I reorder the valid_channels line so
> > that 8.0-updates-i386 is first, then I will only see the 
> > 8.0-updates-i386 channel and not the redhat-8.0-i386 channel.
> > 
> > Both the redhat-8.0-i386 and 8.0-updates-i386 channels  work on 
> > their own, but I can't figure out why it won't list all valid_channels.
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
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