[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk and client update question

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 10:36:13AM -0400, Scott Eicher wrote:
> I've inherited a Spacewalk server (1.2) and I'm trying to find out why I
> have differences between the results of a "yum check-update" on some
> clients, what i see in the system profiles as needing updated, and what i
> see as available in mrepo.
> 
> Example:
> 
> I run yum check-update on a client after registering it to spacewalk, no
> packages listed to be updated.
> I check the system's profile on the spacewalk web interface and the packages
> listed look like what I have installed on the client, so the profile seems
> to be in sync.
> The Details tab lists 50 packages needing upgraded so I look at that list
> and see there are indeed newer packages then what are listed in the profile.
> I then look at the updated packages on the server in
> /var/mrepo/rhel-5-x86_64/updates comparing some of the packages and there
> are indeed newer packages in the mrepo.
> 
> Is there something out of synch somewhere? Any suggestions of places to look
> would be appreciated.

Isn't it merely an issue of stale yum cache on the client? Meaning
that

	yum clean all
	
would force reload of fresh metadata from the server and fix the
problem?

-- 
Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat