[Spacewalk-list] Errata problems

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 11:34:41AM +0200, uri van creveld wrote:
> Hi, i'm running spacewalk 1.5 on rhel 5 server/clients and got some
> problems. Here is what i did:
> 1. I created a rhel5 base channel, and uploaded all rhel 5.7 rpms and
> errata. Things looked ok.
> 2. I upgraded some systems via applying all the errata. It went fine.
> Kernel was updated to 2.6.18-274
> 3. Now that rhel 5.8 is out, i uploaded all its rpms to the channel, as
> well as the errata.
> I now face some problems
> 1. Rhel 5.8 comes with kernel 2.6.18-308. However, there is no specific
> errata connected with its rpms. This causes the gui to ignore the fact that

I can see errata http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0150.html
which lists kernel*-2.6.18-308* among its rpms.

> 2. It seems spacewalk only shows the latest errata for every package. So

Spacewalk 1.7 shows all available erratas and in System -> Software
-> Errata it gives you the option to only select security, bugfix,
etc.

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Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat