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

[Velayutham, Prakash]

On May 30, 2012, at 9:24 AM, Prakash Velayutham wrote:

> 
> 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
> 

Anyone??

Thanks,
Prakash