[Spacewalk-list] Clients not seeing updates after spacewalk-repo-sync

[Michael Mraka]

VERGEER, BOB H. wrote:
% Environment:
% 
% -          Spacewalk server and client 1.7.
% 
% -          Host and server OS CentOS 6.3
% 
% Issue:   I ran an repo-sync on the spacewalk server to update the
% CentOS6 primary and update channels. They now show 6686 & 949 packages
% respectively.  However, registered clients are not seeing the updates.
% I have cleaned repo and metadata and removed /var/cache/yum/* on the
% clients. When I issue a yum list updates, the caches are rebuilt but
% only with the original number of available packages (6346 & 715).
% The UI shows updates available for the client but the client itself
% does not see any. Scheduling the updates through the UI fails with
% "nothing to update".  I feel that I am missing some step  on the
% server side but I can't determine what it is.  Any thoughts?

This is most likely caused by  taskomatic not running.

You may check 'Last Repo Build' and 'Repo Cache Status' values on the
channel detail page.

And also timestamps (and content) of files in
/var/cache/rhn/repodata/<channel_label>.


Regards,

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Michael Mráka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat