[Spacewalk-list] Package List never gets refreshed

[Mike McCune]

nicolas.raspail at bnpparibas.com wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> sorry for the lost of the history for this thread, but I just register 
> to this list.
> 
> I have the same problem of package list not refreshed after yum 
> update/rhn_check with my Spacewalk 0.5 (upgraded from 0.4)
> 
> I have created three channels in my spacewalk :
> * one for RHEL 5.0
> * one for RHEL 5.1
> * one for RHEL 5.2
> 
> I kickstart a RHEL 5.0 and register it with Spacewlak. After, I change 
> its base channel to be the one for RHEL 5.1 and Spacewalk show me a lot 
> of packages that need to be upgraded. That's good. On the host, I do a 
> yum update and everything is fine. But Spacewalk still tells me that a 
> lot of packages need to be upgraded. After doing what Thomas von Steiger 
> explain (playing with child channels), I have got the list refreshed. I 
> have tried rhn-profile-sync without success
> 
> I changed again the base channe to the one for RHEL 5.2 and schedule a 
> packages upgrade from Spacewalk webui. The task complete with success 
> but the webui stills show me that some packages need to be upgraded... I 
> have tried rhn-profile-sync without success. If I remove a child 
> channel, the system status becomes "up to date".
> 
> That is weird and right now, Spacewalk lost is reporting functionnality
> 
> Regards
> 
> Nicolas
> 

The above sounds like a bug, I filed one here with the above since
it reads like a nice summary:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496655

Mike
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