[Spacewalk-list] yum not updating needed packages, which are shown on spacewalk

[Will Cladek]

In fact, upon further investigation, it seems to be the case that ALL packages from the CentOS 5.3 x86_64 update repo aren't being recognized by yum (when doing a "yum list"), even though they are in the channel as verified on the spacewalk server.  I just put both the base and update repos in the same channel, rather than making update a child channel as mentioned in another thread, but this wasn't a problem with spacewalk 0.2 and CentOS 5.2.  Spacwalk shows kernel-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5.x86_64 being in the x86_64 channel, but not yum:

# yum list kernel
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, rhnplugin
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
centos-5-x86_64                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |  871 B     00:00     
Installed Packages
kernel.x86_64                                                                                                                 2.6.18-92.1.18.el5                                                                                                                 installed
kernel.x86_64                                                                                                                 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5                                                                                                                 installed
kernel.x86_64                                                                                                                 2.6.18-128.el5                                                                                                                     installed

In contrast, I have an i386 CentOS 5 system subscribed to an i386 channel containing both base and update packages from 5.3.  Updating with yum works fine, and doing a yum list shows the packages from the update repo.  In this case, Spacewalk shows kernel-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5.i686 being in the i386 channel, and so does yum:

# yum list kernel
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, rhnplugin
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
centos-5-i386                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |  871 B     00:00     
Installed Packages
kernel.i686                                                                                                                  2.6.18-92.1.18.el5                                                                                                                   installed
kernel.i686                                                                                                                  2.6.18-92.1.22.el5                                                                                                                   installed
kernel.i686                                                                                                                  2.6.18-128.1.6.el5                                                                                                                   installed

Is this somehow an issue specific to x86_64?

Will Cladek wrote:
> I have a CentOS 5 x86_64 server subscribed to a spacewalk (0.5) channel 
> containing the base and update repo packages for CentOS 5.3 x86_64.  
> There are 20 packages that need updating, as confirmed by the system 
> information on the spacewalk server.  I'll pick on wireshark here.  
> Spacewalk shows that I have wireshark-1.0.3-4.el5_2 installed, which is 
> true, and need to update to wireshark-1.0.6-2.el5_3.  However, when I do 
> a "yum check-update" or "yum update" on the system itself, it shows no 
> updates being available.  Furthermore, yum doesn't even seem to be aware 
> that the newer version of wireshark exists:
> 
> # yum list wireshark
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, rhnplugin
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
> centos-5-x86_64                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
> |  871 B     00:00     Installed Packages
> wireshark.x86_64                                                                                                                  
> 1.0.3-4.el5_2                                                                                                                  
> installed
> 
> Why won't yum show these updates?
> 
> 
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