[Spacewalk-list] some questions

[Mike McCune]

Michiel van Es wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My work situation:
> 
> -CentOS 5 spacewalk server
> -CentOS 4 and 5 clients
> 
> I have a CentOS 5 spacewalk server which gets its updates with reposync.
> Besided the default yum repos in /etc/yum.repo.d/ , I made 2 extra 
> repos's to fetch with reposync:
> 
> CentOS4_updates.repo
> 
> released updates
> [CentOS4_updates]
> name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates
> mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=4&arch=$basearch&repo=updates
> #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/
> gpgcheck=1
> gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-4
> 
> 
> CentOS5_updates.repo
> 
> 
> #released updates
> [CentOS5_updates]
> name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates
> mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updates
> #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/
> gpgcheck=1
> gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
> 
> And push the updates with rhnpush daily.
> 
> I installed the client software described on:
> https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/RegisteringClients
> 
> The problem is that I will only see bind updates for my CentOS 5 clients 
> on the server but when I run a yum update on the clients I find much more:
> 
> [root at devgnudb01 scripts]# yum update
> Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
> Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>   * base: ftp.nluug.nl
>   * updates: ftp.nluug.nl
>   * addons: ftp.nluug.nl
>   * centos5_updates: devmx01.buro.info.nl
>   * extras: ftp.nluug.nl
> base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> updates                   100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> addons                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> centos5_updates           100% |=========================| 1.2 kB    00:00
> extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> Setting up Update Process
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package Deployment_Guide-en-US.noarch 0:5.2-11.el5.centos set to be 
> updated
> ---> Package bind-libs.i386 30:9.3.4-6.0.2.P1.el5_2 set to be updated
> ---> Package bind-utils.i386 30:9.3.4-6.0.2.P1.el5_2 set to be updated
> ---> Package bluez-utils.i386 0:3.7-2.2.el5.centos set to be updated
> ---> Package bluez-libs.i386 0:3.7-1.1 set to be updated
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> 
> Dependencies Resolved
> 
> =============================================================================
>   Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
> =============================================================================
> Updating:
>   Deployment_Guide-en-US  noarch     5.2-11.el5.centos  centos5_updates 
>    3.5 M
>   bind-libs               i386       30:9.3.4-6.0.2.P1.el5_2 
> centos5_updates   8 
>                           46 k
>   bind-utils              i386       30:9.3.4-6.0.2.P1.el5_2 
> centos5_updates   1 
>                           67 k
>   bluez-libs              i386       3.7-1.1          centos5_updates 
>   55 k
>   bluez-utils             i386       3.7-2.2.el5.centos  centos5_updates 
>    346 k
> 
> Transaction Summary
> =============================================================================
> Install      0 Package(s)
> Update       5 Package(s)
> Remove       0 Package(s)
> 
> Total download size: 4.8 M
> 
> My questions:
> 
> -Do I get trouble downloading CentOS4 and CentoS 5 updates with reposync 
>   and pushing them in my satellite server?

do you still have the original (non Spacewalk) CentOS repos enabled in 
your /etc/yum/repos.d/ files?

If so it could be trying to pull updates from both your Spacewalk server 
and the CentOS repos which could be causing confusion.

how you have the repos enabled on your CentOS clients can help answer 
the questions below.

> -Why doesn't spacewalk show me the updates above and only the bind* 
> updates and not the oother updates?
> -If I want to install packages on clients (normal CentOS repo - base and 
> extra repo) do I have to make a special channel for those repo's too? 
> And do I have to configure the clients to use that extra channel too or 
> can I use 1 channel for CentOS 5 clients? (base, extras and updates)
> -Did someone manage to use CentOS 4 client on the spacewalk server and 
> use CentOS 4 and 5 clients on the server?
> 
> Sorry for all my questions , I am trying to figuring this beautiful tool :)
> 
> Thanks in advance.
>