[Spacewalk-list] question about kernel updates

[Michiel van Es]

Hi Mike,

if change that file and restart rhnsd and osad still nothing happens.
The CentOS5 clients doesn't have that entry.
The strange thing is that 1 of the 5 servers (CentOS 4 and 5 clients) 
sees the new kernel update..but why?

Do you where else I can look for some more tips?

Thanks for your help :)

Kind Regards,

Michiel




Mike McCune wrote:
> Michiel van Es wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have mixed Centos 4 and 5 clients conneted tot my spacewalk server.
>> My spacewalk server is getting the updates every night and push them in
>> to the satelite.
>>
>> On a CentOS 4 client, yum is still enabled and I can see updates that
>> the Spacewalk server is not showing to the client (everything is ok )
>> But on the client I can still see a kernel update and an sos update:
>>
>>
>> =============================================================================
>>  Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
>> =============================================================================
>> Installing:
>>  kernel                  i686       2.6.9-67.0.22.EL  update
>>  12 M
>> Updating:
>>  rhnlib                  noarch     2.1.2-11.el4
>> spacewalk-client-tools  101 k
>>  sos                     noarch     1.7-6.1.el4_6.3  update            102 k
>>
>> Transaction Summary
>> =============================================================================
>>
>> When I do a rhn_check -vv I get the following error on the client:
>>
>>
>> local action status:  (0, 'rpm database not modified since last update
>> (or package list recently updated)', {})
>>
>> I DO see the package being installed in the satelite folder:
>>
>> /repodata/repositories/CentOS4_updates/CentOS4_updates/RPMS/kernel-2.6.9-67.0.22.EL.i686.rpm
>>
>> How can I let spacewalk push the kernel update to the client and why
>> doesn't the client sees the update? (it used rhnsd and osad).
> 
> Check /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date.  Look for the pkgSkipList:
> 
> pkgSkipList=kernel*;
> 
> By default I believe we skip kernel updates, but I'm not entirely sure why.
> 
> Mike
> --
> Mike McCune
> mmccune AT redhat.com
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