[Spacewalk-list] API listLatestUpgradablePackages returning too many packages

[Velayutham, Prakash]

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From: Jan Hutař [jhutar at redhat.com]
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2012 6:03 AM
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Cc: Velayutham, Prakash
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] API listLatestUpgradablePackages returning too many packages

On Thu, 5 Jul 2012 10:27:15 +0000 "Velayutham, Prakash"
<Prakash.Velayutham at cchmc.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Spacewalk - 1.6
>
> I am trying to use the "listLatestUpgradablePackages"  API
> call to install the latest available packages for a system.
> Here is the problem I am facing.
>
> Both from the Spacewalk WebUI and using yum check-update on a
> client, I get the same set of updates as available, but the
> API returns a lot more packages. I think the extra packages
> are just different (lower) versions of what shows up through
> the WebUI. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong? I am
> referring to the script that Joshua Roys gracefully shared at
> "https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/2010-June/msg00059.html".
>
> Thanks,
> Prakash

Hello,
you are right. I have checked on SWnightly and this seems to be
a bug, so I have filled it:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=839960

Regards,
Jan




Hi Jan,

Thanks.

Prakash