[Spacewalk-list] Re: Concern over upgrades not showing...

[James Hogarth]

Further to the below last week.

The backend system is upgraded to 0.7 and the new client tools repo has been
imported as a child channel. None of the systems are showing the new client
tools as available upgrades even after yum makecache and rhn_check is run.

yum list upgrades shows the packages as valid upgrade packages if run
locally on the host and after running rhn-profile-sync the spacewalk server
then shows the packages as possible upgrades for the hosts.

The result of this is that the spacewalk systems overview is out of date
with regards to any packages that have updates available.

Is the server meant to determine available updates from the database or the
client informing it?

Right now I'm not sure what the correct behaviour is meant to be when an
updated packages is pushed/sync'd into the channels.

James

2009/12/4 James Hogarth <james.hogarth at gmail.com>

> Hi,
>
> The spacewalk 0.6 server on Centos 5.4 I have is using a scheduled cron job
> to run spacewalk-repo-sync to import a variety of upstream repositories into
> various channels. That appears to be running fine and I can see packages
> being imported and see them in the required channels afterwards.
>
> However this morning I noticed something a little odd.....
>
> The spacewalk server itself reported that there was a new cups and cups-lib
> package available for it - considering I have the cups service disabled I
> wasn't concerned initially. It was only when looking into the other systems
> that are subscribed to my spacewalk instance that I realised the package
> should apply to most of them and yet only the spacewalk server itself showed
> any packages out of date.
>
>
> Comparing a system built a couple of weeks ago to one built yesterday shows
>
>
> Package This System system2 Difference   cups  1.3.7-11.el5_4.3:1.x86_64 1.3.7-11.el5_4.4:1.x86_64 system2 newer   cups-libs
>  1.3.7-11.el5_4.3:1.i386
>  This system only   cups-libs
>  1.3.7-11.el5_4.4:1.x86_64  system2 only   cups-libs 1.3.7-11.el5_4.3:1.x86_64
>  This system only   cups-libs
>  1.3.7-11.el5_4.4:1.i386  system2 only
>
> However spacewalk shows no updates for 'this system' even though the
> relevant packages if checked in the channel show 4.4 as a newer version of
> 4.3 and yum list updates on the system shows 4.4 as an update to 4.3.
>
> If the newest package is chosen in the channel listing the older system is
> showing as a valid target in target systems for deployment.
>
> Both servers were built with the same kickstarts with the same activation
> key and have the same channel subscriptions.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> James
>
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