[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk server update list different from yum

[Franky Van Liedekerke]

On Mon, 28 May 2012 14:13:04 +0000
"Velayutham, Prakash" <Prakash.Velayutham at cchmc.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I just noticed that the update list for one of the clients (I am sure
> there are other clients with this issue too) is different when I
> check using "yum check-update" on the client compared to what the
> Spacewalk server shows. Is this expected?
> 
> Spacewalk version - 1.6

I noticed it too, even with 1.7: it seems that "yum update" (or
check-update) also lists packages that will replace other packages,
while spacewalk just seems to update to the newest version of each of
the installed packages, plus dependancies.

Franky