[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk not pushing packages.

[Steven Reilly]

Robert,

It looks valid enough.

yum --verbose repolist
Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
Loading "priorities" plugin
Loading "security" plugin
Config time: 0.046
Looking for repo options for [main]
Looking for repo options for [centos5-base-x86_64]
Repo 'centos5-base-x86_64' setting option 'enabled' = '1'
Repo 'centos5-base-x86_64' setting option 'gpgcheck' = '0'
Looking for repo options for [rpmforge-el5-x86_64]
Repo 'rpmforge-el5-x86_64' setting option 'enabled' = '1'
Repo 'rpmforge-el5-x86_64' setting option 'gpgcheck' = '0'
Looking for repo options for [spacewalk-client-el5-x86_64]
Repo 'spacewalk-client-el5-x86_64' setting option 'enabled' = '1'
Repo 'spacewalk-client-el5-x86_64' setting option 'gpgcheck' = '0'
Looking for repo options for [centos5-extras-x86_64]
Repo 'centos5-extras-x86_64' setting option 'enabled' = '1'
Repo 'centos5-extras-x86_64' setting option 'gpgcheck' = '0'
Looking for repo options for [centos5-updates-x86_64]
Repo 'centos5-updates-x86_64' setting option 'enabled' = '1'
Repo 'centos5-updates-x86_64' setting option 'gpgcheck' = '0'
Yum Version: 3.2.22
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
centos5-base-x86_64 
                                                               |  871 B 
     00:00
centos5-extras-x86_64 
                                                               |  871 B 
     00:00
centos5-updates-x86_64 
                                                               |  871 B 
     00:00
rpmforge-el5-x86_64 
                                                               |  871 B 
     00:00
spacewalk-client-el5-x86_64 
                                                               |  871 B 
     00:00
Setting up Package Sacks
pkgsack time: 0.021
Repo-id      : centos5-base-x86_64
Repo-name    : CentOS 5 Base - x86_64
Repo-updated : Wed Oct 10 15:00:58 2012
Repo-pkgs    : 3,590
Repo-size    : 4.6 G
Repo-baseurl : 
http://edcswalk.eng.allegro.msad/XMLRPC/GET-REQ/centos5-base-x86_64
Repo-expire  : 3,600 second(s) (last: Wed Oct 17 15:42:15 2012)

Repo-id      : centos5-extras-x86_64
Repo-name    : CentOS 5 Extras - x86_64
Repo-updated : Wed Oct 10 15:21:25 2012
Repo-pkgs    : 274
Repo-size    : 157 M
Repo-baseurl : 
http://edcswalk.eng.allegro.msad/XMLRPC/GET-REQ/centos5-extras-x86_64
Repo-expire  : 3,600 second(s) (last: Wed Oct 17 15:42:15 2012)

Repo-id      : centos5-updates-x86_64
Repo-name    : CentOS 5 Updates - x86_64
Repo-updated : Wed Oct 10 00:15:03 2012
Repo-pkgs    : 1,083
Repo-size    : 5.0 G
Repo-baseurl : 
http://edcswalk.eng.allegro.msad/XMLRPC/GET-REQ/centos5-updates-x86_64
Repo-expire  : 3,600 second(s) (last: Wed Oct 17 15:42:15 2012)

Repo-id      : rpmforge-el5-x86_64
Repo-name    : RPMforge EL5 - x86_64
Repo-updated : Sat Oct  6 14:32:11 2012
Repo-pkgs    : 11,148
Repo-size    : 5.8 G
Repo-baseurl : 
http://edcswalk.eng.allegro.msad/XMLRPC/GET-REQ/rpmforge-el5-x86_64
Repo-expire  : 3,600 second(s) (last: Wed Oct 17 15:42:15 2012)

Repo-id      : spacewalk-client-el5-x86_64
Repo-name    : Spacewalk Client - EL5 - x86_64
Repo-updated : Sat Oct  6 14:33:25 2012
Repo-pkgs    : 21
Repo-size    : 1.9 M
Repo-baseurl : 
http://edcswalk.eng.allegro.msad/XMLRPC/GET-REQ/spacewalk-client-el5-x86_64
Repo-expire  : 3,600 second(s) (last: Wed Oct 17 15:42:15 2012)

repolist: 16,116

The machine I ran it on has 5 updates showing in Spacewalk BUT when I 
click to see which patches I see 8?!

Running yum update on the client gives no updates (none in yumex either)

Steve

On 17/10/12 15:22, Boyd, Robert wrote:
> Steven,
>
> What do you get for output when you do this on a client:
>
> Yum --verbose repolist
>
> ?
>
> Robert
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Steven Reilly
> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 10:00 AM
> To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> Subject: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk not pushing packages.
>
> Hi,
>
> First post.
>
> I've installed and setup Spacewalk on a CentOS 5.8 machine (all of my clients are CentOS 5.8 32 and 64 bit)
>
> I have configured Spacewalk to download various CentOS and other repositories and all the clients are registered with the server and have osad installed and running.
>
> Spacewalk shows that each client is registered and requires a various number of update packages but, apart from a job appearing in the Schedule Pending Actions when I send packages, nothing much happens.
> Eventually it fails.
>
> The other thing I don't understand is that unless I have .repo files under /etc/yum.repo.d/ for repositories which can supply the update packages, when I do "yum update" I get no results - despite Spacewalk telling me that there should be.
>
> Also, when I DO add .repo files under /etc/yum.repo.d/ that point to repositories which can supply the update packages the downloaded packages come from those external servers rather than the local Spacewalk server.
>
> I must have something configured incorrectly.
>
> Any pointers?
>
> Steve
>

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