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

[Jesus M. Rodriguez]

Pradeep,

I'll get these packages out on Monday.

jesus

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Pradeep Kilambi <pkilambi at redhat.com> wrote:
> Will Cladek wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>>>
>>>
>
> I fixed this issue and built new updates on Wednesday. I  dont think they
> synced the repo yet with these new packages.
>
> Zeus, when you get a chance, can you pull the updated spacewalk-backend and
> spacewalk-java packages into the 0.5 repo? I already built em into koji. I
> still see older ones in the repo.
>
> Thanks,
> ~ Prad
>
>
>>>
>>
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