[Spacewalk-list] updates problems

[Michael Mraka]

fsosson at gmail.com wrote:
% primary.xml is exactly the same on both side but when watching for
% cups-1.3.7-18.el5 I do not see sub version like
% "cups-1.3.7-18.el5_5.8:1.x86_64" displayed in the Spacewalk

So which cups version is in primary.xml? And which is diplayed on
spacewalk page?

% On 29 November 2010 16:12, Michael Mraka <michael.mraka at redhat.com> wrote:
% > fsosson at gmail.com wrote:
% > % yes taskomatic is running, metadata_expire is not configured on
% > % systems and the problem is not fixed after running yum clean all
% >
% > OK,
% >
% > on client locate primary.xml.gz in /var/cache/yum/<channel_label> and check
% > which version of autofs and cups it contains.
% > Similary on spacewalk server locate primary.xml.gz in
% > /var/cache/rhn/repodata/<channel_label> and check version of autofs and
% > cups in there.
% > Are they new or old ones? Do they match?
% >
% > % On 29 November 2010 14:30, Michael Mraka <michael.mraka at redhat.com> wrote:
% > % > fsosson at gmail.com wrote:
% > % > % yes for example, this is the list I got from a specific system, the
% > % > % packages listed in the right column are all installed:
% > % > %
% > % > % autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.143.el5_5.6:1.x86_64               autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.143.el5_5.5:1.x86_64
% > % > % cups-1.3.7-18.el5_5.8:1.x86_64        cups-1.3.7-18.el5_5.7:1.x86_64
% > % >
% > % >
% > % > Well, then spacewalk reports newer packages then the installed ones so
% > % > it's right :).
% > % >
% > % > Two reasons come on my mind:
% > % > - Yum repos on spacewalk server have stale data.
% > % >  Is taskomatic running?
% > % > - Yum cache on client is not refreshed,
% > % >  What's your  metadata_expire value?
% > % >  Does yum clean all solves (at least temporarily) problem?
% > % >
% > % >
% > % > % cups-libs-1.3.7-18.el5_5.8:1.i386     cups-libs-1.3.7-18.el5_5.7:1.i386
% > % > % cups-libs-1.3.7-18.el5_5.8:1.x86_64   cups-libs-1.3.7-18.el5_5.7:1.x86_64
% > % > ...
% > % > % > % I'm running Spacewalk 1.1 and for a few weeks I see in the systems
% > % > % > % overview some systems needing updates but a "yum update" on those
% > % > % > % systems does not suggest any update.
% > % > % > %
% > % > % > % Any idea?
% > % > % >
% > % > % > If you go to <system> -> Software -> Packages -> Upgrade are there
% > % > % > listed any packages?
% > % > % > Are they installed on the system? Which version?

Regards,

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Michael Mráka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat