[Spacewalk-list] how to get updates out of custom channel?] 2nd try

[Brian Collins]

> > Couple of questions:
> > 1. In the Channels tab, what is the Last Repo Build time?  Is it
later
> > than when you uploaded the package?
> aha! last build time is
> Last Repo Build: 	2011-02-11 14:44:40 EST

I've seen that happen a few times.  Sometimes restarting the taskomatic
service will fix it.  Otherwise, here's how I deal with it:

On the server:
   Find the label (not the name) of the channel having trouble
   Assuming the channel label is "my-channel", do: rm -f
/var/cache/rhn/repodata/my-channel/*
   Verify that the taskomatic service is running with: service
taskomatic status
   Check the folder to make sure cache files are being generated: ls -l
/var/cache/rhn/repodata/my-channel (may take a while)
   Check the status page of the channel in question. Wait until Repo
Cache Status is Completed, then...
   
On the client:
  yum clean all
  yum check-update

Now, I'm running RHN Satellite (the commercial product), so YMMV, but
this should be pretty close to what you need to do.