[Spacewalk-list] updates problems

[Michael Mraka]

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