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

[Velayutham, Prakash]

On May 29, 2012, at 3:23 AM, Michael Mraka wrote:

> Franky Van Liedekerke wrote:
> % 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.
> 
> Another reason for this behavior could be use of yum plugins
> which modify list of packages - e.g. priorities, protect-packages,
> protectbase, versionlock etc.
> 
> Spacewalk has no idea what's filtered out locally on the client.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> --
> Michael Mráka
> Satellite Engineering, Red Hat
> 

The other question is, after I schedule an update for a client from the Spacewalk server, when it runs on the client, does it update all the packages that were selected from the Spacewalk server, or just what "yum check-update" returns (which might be a subset)?

Thanks,
Prakash