<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /></head><body style='font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif'> On 2019-02-13 10:56, Florin Portase wrote: <blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0"> Hello, I just have upgraded the spacewalk server from 2.7 => 2.9. I have applied also the sql patch from <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1661347" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1661347</a> + upgraded the clients from : http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.9:/debclients/ Just to mention spacewalk 2.7 + patches was working just fine for both debian & ubuntu. Now, for ubuntu 16.05 I have over 100 packages marked as up-gradable( over and over....) _______________________________________________ <div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">Spacewalk-list mailing list <a href="mailto:Spacewalk-list@redhat.com">Spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list</a></div> </blockquote> So, after digging through SPW archive Dec '18 til Feb '19 finally I come to something more acceptable: 1. sync script for Ubuntu channels 2. "spacewalk-add-debian-multiarch-header.py.NEW " took it from "https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/2018-December/msg00017.html" wget -q http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz \ -O /tmp/Packages-xenial-main.gz && gunzip -f /tmp/Packages-xenial-main.gz wget -q http://cz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial-updates/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz \ -O /tmp/Packages-xenial-updates.gz && gunzip -f /tmp/Packages-xenial-updates.gz wget -q http://cz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial-security/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz \ -O /tmp/Packages-xenial-security.gz && gunzip -f /tmp/Packages-xenial-security.gz s=180 trap 'echo "Ctrl-C detected."' 2 for (( i=$s ; i>0; i--)); do #printf '\rFinishing sync in: %2d seconds' $i; sleep 1 echo -ne "\rFinishing sync in: $i seconds\033[0K"; sleep 1 done echo -e "\nSync completed!" trap 2 $_BIN_PATH/spacewalk-add-debian-multiarch-header.py.NEW $_PKG_MAIN/Packages /tmp/Packages-xenial-main $_BIN_PATH/spacewalk-add-debian-multiarch-header.py.NEW $_PKG_UPD/Packages /tmp/Packages-xenial-updates $_BIN_PATH/spacewalk-add-debian-multiarch-header.py.NEW $_PKG_SEC/Packages /tmp/Packages-xenial-security $_BIN_PATH/spacewalk-add-debian-multiarch-header.py.NEW $_PKG_UNIV/Packages /tmp/Packages-xenial-universe /bin/mv $_PKG_MAIN/Packages.new $_PKG_MAIN/Packages /bin/mv $_PKG_SEC/Packages.new $_PKG_SEC/Packages /bin/mv $_PKG_UPD/Packages.new $_PKG_UPD/Packages /bin/mv $_PKG_UNIV/Packages.new $_PKG_UNIV/Packages gzip < $_PKG_MAIN/Packages > $_PKG_MAIN/Packages.gz gzip < $_PKG_UPD/Packages > $_PKG_UPD/Packages.gz gzip < $_PKG_SEC/Packages > $_PKG_SEC/Packages.gz gzip < $_PKG_UNIV/Packages > $_PKG_UNIV/Packages.gz cd $_PKG_MAIN $_BIN_PATH/secureApt.sh xenial xenial-main touch -r Packages.gz Packages cd $_PKG_UPD $_BIN_PATH/secureApt.sh xenial xenial-updates touch -r Packages.gz Packages cd $_PKG_SEC $_BIN_PATH/secureApt.sh xenial xenial-security touch -r Packages.gz Packages So just to resume, SYNC =>OK, applying ALL missing headers =>OK, now the packages that are showed as up-gradable dropped from ~120 to only 6 ( base-files libbind9-140 libisc160 libisccc140 libisccfg140 liblwres141 ) ~~BUT~~ Here I run into another problem, it seems taskomatic is generating Package files over and over ( touch -r Packages.gz Packages seems to have no effect) </body></html>