[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 1.6 bug - selecting el5 and el6 does not get all

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 01:50:05PM +0200, Mario Mikocevic wrote:
> 
> > Could youprovide exact example of which package do you attempt to update
> > and in which version it is installed on a target systems?
> 
> tzdata is perfect example but it happens with other packages too.
> 
> Lemme explain with few more details
> 
> - at System Overview select all servers
> - click Manage (up right)
> - click Upgrade
> - select tzdata, *both* versions .el5 and .el6
>   (number of servers applicable in each line is correct)
> - click Upgrade Selected Packages
> 
> in that displayed list of servers *some* CentOS 5 servers are missing

So what is special about the systems that are missing? How do the
differ from the other CentOS 5 servers that end up in the list? Is it
different arch? Different set of packages installed?

Since for some systems the application works as expected, there is
likely something in the data about the affected profiles that triggers
the wrong behaviour.

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Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat