Is it possible to block a specific version of an update from being synced at the Satellite server end (not the client)

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We have an issue with a specific version of a package and want to exclude it from being synced on the nightly satellite-sync job. Is this possible? Ideally we'd like to ignore this specific release and stick at the previous release, so that patching status still shows as updated on clients

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Package version we want to exclude in question is: osad-5.11.63-11 , this has a problem (we've asked RH support to investigate but that's a whole other story!)
We'd like to stick to the previous working (for us) version: osad-5.11.44-10

We're already aware of the "exclude= " entry in /etc/yum.conf but this requires updating all the clients, something we are not keen to do given the scope of the issue - would it be possible to achieve the same result on the Satellite server itself?

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Not sure which version of Satellite you are using, and it may make a difference. Satellite 6.0 had some issues in this area and I am not sure which version fixed the issue.

However, in the content views, Sat 6.x has a menu for filters. You can add include or exclude filters to a view. By choosing an exclude filter and filter by package, you can specify a version to exclude or even a range of versions.

One word of caution, however. When I first started using filters, as soon as I used one filter, I found that I had to create extra include filters to capture everything that I needed. I don't know if that has been fixed or not, so we have a couple of filters on most base views. One to include all errata, and one to include all packages without errata.

Hope that help.

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