[Spacewalk-list] updates problems

[fsosson at gmail.com]

yes taskomatic is running, metadata_expire is not configured on
systems and the problem is not fixed after running yum clean all

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,
>
> --
> Michael Mráka
> Satellite Engineering, Red Hat
>
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