[Spacewalk-list] spacecmd system_listupgrades not working

Thu Aug 15 13:31:52 UTC 2013

> Is the removal of duplicates the solution?

I believe it would be the easiest and quickest solution.

> Because default on a
> RHEL-derived system, RPM/YUM leaves the 3 latest kernel-packages on
> the system, so you can boot the system with the old kernel of the
> new kernel is not working for you.

Sure.

> Maybe the better solution would be to check if there are older
> packages on the system. If there are older packages and the version
> to which those packages could be upgraded is already present on the
> system, the upgrades aren't listed. This could also comes in handy
> if you have multiple version of a package on your system. For
> instance, the installation or upgrade of JDK7 by RPM doesn't remove
> the old versions.

java-1.5.0-gcj
java-1.7.0-openjdk
java-1.8.0-openjdk
are different packages. java-1.8.0-openjdk isn't really an upgrade of
java-1.7.0-openjdk. Well, it could be considered as upgrade from the
content point of view, but definitely not from the rpm view.

(For java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.25-2.3.12.3.fc19.x86_64, package name
is 'java-1.7.0-openjdk' (not java) version is 1.7.0.25,
release 2.3.12.3.fc19, ...)

> If you have 3 older versions of the JDK7 on your
> environment and not the latest, the update gets listed 4 times!!

No. You can have only 'kernel' package installed in multiple versions
on one system.

CC'ing Aron, the author of the spacecmd.

Regards,
--
Tomas Lestach
Red Hat Satellite Engineering, Red Hat

> Once for every old version and once because the latest versions is
> not installed yet. So you get 3 false positives, the same as with
> the kernels.
> 
> Regards,
> Andreas
> 
> 
> ________________________________________
> Van: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] namens Tomas Lestach
> [tlestach at redhat.com]
> Verzonden: donderdag 15 augustus 2013 10:36
> Aan: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> Onderwerp: Re: [Spacewalk-list] spacecmd system_listupgrades not
> working
> 
> Right,
> 
> spacecmd system_listupgrades actually uses the
> system.listLatestUpgradablePackages API.
> Output of this API you can check on your spacewalk at
> /rhn/apidoc/handlers/SystemHandler.jsp#listLatestUpgradablePackages
> 
> basically for every installed server package, that can be upgraded
> following structure is returned:
> 
> string "name"
> string "arch"
> string "from_version"
> string "from_release"
> string "from_epoch"
> string "to_version"
> string "to_release"
> string "to_epoch"
> string "to_package_id"
> 
> so you see for every upgradable package the latest package to that
> you may upgrade.
> 
> What spacecmd system_listupgrades actually does is it returns a
> package list just according to "to_package_id".
> So if you have multiple kernel versions installed, for all the older
> ones the latest kernel is offered as an
> update, what causes the kernel package is listed several times.
> 
> An option would be just to remove duplicates from the list.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> --
> Tomas Lestach
> Red Hat Satellite Engineering, Red Hat
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Anthony J Coffman" <Tony.Coffman at snapon.com>
> > To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 8:43:54 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] spacecmd system_listupgrades not
> > working
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I can confirm and maybe explain what is going on. I don’t use this
> > function very much but I just tried it on my Spacewalk 2.0 install.
> >
> >
> >
> > Here is the spacecmd output for a system that the Spacewalk GUI
> > said
> > was up to date.
> >
> >
> >
> > spacecmd {SSM:0}> system_listupgrades centos5server
> >
> > kernel-PAE-2.6.18-348.12.1.el5.i686
> >
> > kernel-PAE-2.6.18-348.12.1.el5.i686
> >
> >
> >
> > But when I checked what kernel-PAE packages were installed, there
> > were 3 installed currently on that system.
> >
> >
> >
> > [root at centos5server ~]# rpm -q kernel-PAE
> >
> > kernel-PAE-2.6.18-348.3.1.el5
> >
> > kernel-PAE-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5
> >
> > kernel-PAE-2.6.18-348.12.1.el5
> >
> >
> >
> > If I remove the two older kernels and then run the listupgrades
> > command it shows no updates
> >
> >
> >
> > [root at centos5server ~]# rpm -e kernel-PAE-2.6.18-348.3.1.el5
> >
> > [root at centos5server ~]# rpm -e kernel-PAE-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5
> >
> > [root@ centos5server ~]# rhn-profile-sync
> >
> >
> >
> > spacecmd {SSM:0}> system_listupgrades rich-iweb-10-rv
> >
> > WARNING: No upgrades available for rich-iweb-10-rv
> >
> >
> >
> > Does this explain it? it’s listing the update twice – once for each
> > of the out of date kernels. The GUI must have some logic that
> > covers
> > this case that the API doesn’t have.
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > --Tony
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com
> > [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Andreas
> > Dijkman
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 11:08 AM
> > To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> > Subject: [Spacewalk-list] spacecmd system_listupgrades not working
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > We currently have some systems configured with spacewalk and wanted
> > to play around with spacecmd.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > The problem is the output of spacecmd system_listupgrades. Somehow
> > there is a package-cache or something, because the
> > system_listupgrades-command returns the list of not installed
> > packages including the latest kernel-packages.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > However in the spacewalk-web-GUI these updates aren't listed. Can
> > someone explain or confirm this behavior? We are running Spacewalk
> > 2.0 with Oracle as backend.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Met vriendelijke groet,
> >
> > Andreas Dijkman
> > Oracle Technical Consultant
> > Phone: +31(0)50-210 0132 | Mobile: +31(0)6-8115 2982
> > Cygnis | Stationsweg 3B | 9726 AC Groningen
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Spacewalk-list mailing list
> > Spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Spacewalk-list mailing list
> Spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Spacewalk-list mailing list
> Spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
> 