Fwd: [Spacewalk-list] Viewing updates for CentOS in spacewalk

[Jon Stanley]

OK, this reply-to-sender thing is somewhat annoying, didn't reply to
the list on this :)

Also, I've logged into our Satellite in the meantime. If you go to the
system, and then the software/upgrade tab, you'll see a list of
updates available. For me, related errata were also displayed, but I
don't think that having an errata for the update is a requirement for
it to show up in there.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jon Stanley <jonstanley at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:58 AM
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Viewing updates for CentOS in spacewalk
To: Will Cladek <william.cladek at nrl.navy.mil>


On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 7:40 AM, Will Cladek
<william.cladek at nrl.navy.mil> wrote:

> However, when we are signed into the spacewalk web interface, it shows that
> there are no updates available for the client.  The client only has a
> "Management" entitlement, and there is seemingly no way to give it an
> "Update" entitlement.

A management entitlement includes and supersedes an update
entitlement. If you want to use features like config file management,
etc, you'll want to add a provisioning entitlement (controlled by the
provisioning-slots field in the entitlement cert)

>  There is also no Errata at all listed under the
> "Errata" section.  How can we get this to display the updates available for
> registered clients?

You would have to create and publish errata in order for anything to
be visible in the errata tab, I think.  I'm not sure how to see that a
newer package is available off the top of my head without an errata (I
actually don't have a Spacewalk server yet - long story having to do
with a failed drive and broken arm :/ ). I do however maintain a RHN
Satellite server :)



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Jon Stanley
Fedora Bug Wrangler
jstanley at fedoraproject.org