[Spacewalk-list] serious problem with profile rollback

[uri van creveld]

Hi,

I'm running spacewalk 1.5 on RHEL 5 server/clients.
I want to use it mainly for installing erratas.
Today I tried applying a security patch for example - something that
updates 3 packages - vim-common vim-enhanced, vim-minimal
Before applying it I saved a system profile, so I can roll back to a
previous known and good configuration.
I applied the errata, it went fine.
Then I tried to compare the system to the stored profile and revert the change.
At first, the old packages were not in the channel so I could not
revert them. So I put them in a repository and synced the channel.
Afterwards, I tried reverting the packages again. The action was
scheduled, picked up, and successfull. BUT -
upon checking in the server, I found out that all 3 packages were
removed only! spacewalk did not install the previous versions, and did
not say anything!
This is bad... I want to be ably to rely on this feature when I find a
problem in a new package.

please help...