[Spacewalk-list] Client update question

[Michael Mraka]

Eric Lake wrote:
% My spacewalk server is showing that some of my client workstations
% have some packages that can be upgraded. However when I do a 'yum
% update' on the workstation it tells me that "No Packages marked for
% Update". These are the packages that spacewalk says can be upgraded
% compared to what is on the workstation:
% 
% Spacewalk:                                               Workstation:
% autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.143.el5_5.4:1.i386	        autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.143.el5:1.i386	
% httpd-2.2.3-43.el5.centos.3.i386
% httpd-2.2.3-43.el5.centos.i386
% ImageMagick-6.2.8.0-4.el5_5.2.i386
% ImageMagick-6.2.8.0-4.el5_1.1.i386
% ipsec-tools-0.6.5-14.el5_5.5.i386
% ipsec-tools-0.6.5-13.el5_3.1.i386
% kernel-2.6.18-194.11.3.el5.i686                    kernel-2.6.18-194.el5.i686	
% kernel-2.6.18-194.11.3.el5.i686
% kernel-2.6.18-194.11.1.el5.i686
% kernel-devel-2.6.18-194.11.3.el5.i686
% kernel-devel-2.6.18-194.el5.i686
% kernel-devel-2.6.18-194.11.3.el5.i686
% kernel-devel-2.6.18-194.11.1.el5.i686
% kernel-headers-2.6.18-194.11.3.el5.i386
% kernel-headers-2.6.18-194.11.1.el5.i386
% 
% What could be causing this? I have run rhn-profile-sync, yum clean
% all, rhn_check and none of those have helped me get the system to
% update.
% 
% [root at keck] ~# yum update
% Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, rhnplugin
% Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
% Setting up Update Process
% No Packages marked for Update

I think it might be an instance of bug
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585965.

Regards

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Michael Mráka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat