[Spacewalk-list] RHN spacewalk package update discrepancy

[Jet Wilda]

Bump ;-)  I'm guessing no one knows and that I'm in uncharted territory
here.  I guess I'll have to use RHN to manage our Redhat boxes and
Spacewalk for our CentOS boxes.  Which is doable, just would be nice to
have one central place to manage all our boxes.


-----Original Message-----
From: Jet Wilda
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 3:10 PM

Hi,

	I have spacewalk 1.1 setup and I have a local mirror via rhnget
of the RHN channel rhel-x86_64-server-5 that I then spacewalk-repo-sync
into our spacewalk server.  I have a test server that has Redhat 5.1 on
it that was registered on RHN that I switched to our spacewalk server.
However when the System is registered to RHN it shows 458 packages that
need to be updated, but when I register it with our spacewalk server it
only shows 285 packages that need to be updated. i.e.

What RHN shows:
Errata	Packages	  System
Base Channel
 966	       458		 testserver	           Red Hat
Enterprise Linux (v. 5 for 64-bit x86_64)

What Spacewalk shows:
   System			Errata	Packages	Configs	  Base
Channel
 testserver			 0	        285		   0
rhel 5 - Base - x86_64

The channel on the spacewalk server shows the same number of packages as
the corresponding channel in RHN.  Is it because I haven't imported the
errata?  Or what else could cause this?

Thanks,
~Jet