[Spacewalk-list] Fedora 16 client not getting updates from Spacewalk 1.6

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 05:38:18PM +0000, Alan Pittman wrote:
> Jonathan,
>    Thanks for the reply.
> 
>  Unfortunately, I have tried that and it does not work.
> 
> The steps that I have taken are:
> 
> # yum clean all
> # cd /var/cache/yum
> # rm -Rf ./*
> # yum makecache
> # yum check-update
> 
> With the /etc/yum/repos.d/fedora-updates.repo turned off (enable=0), I don't receive any messages stating that there are RPMs to receive and apply. If I turn fedora-updates.repo on, the I get a list.
> 
> Whatever the problem is, it just recently occurred. Up until approximately a week ago, I was able to update F16 from Spacewalk without any issues.
> 
> I even tried removing the spacewalk-client RPMs, re-installing them and re-registering the client. Still no luck.

I don't think the problem is on the client at all. To yum,
Spacewalk-based repos are more-or-less the same as normal repos -- yum
downloads the repodata and acts based on those.

So you need to check the status of the repo sync and repodata
generation on the server first.

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