[Spacewalk-list] Repo update question

[Dimitri Yioulos]

Hey, all.

I'm continuing to tweak and/or try to bend Spacewalk to my 
will.  This morning, I ran "yum update" on one of my 
servers, and noticed that there was a Samba update (from 
Sernet).  This wasn't reflected in the Samba channels I 
created in Spacewalk, which is OK, since I have these 
channels set to update every Saturday afternoon, the first 
of which comes up this Saturday.  But, to make sure 
everything works as it should, I updated the channels 
manually from the CLI.  Worked fine.

Now, as per help through an earlier post, I created cloned 
channels of the original Samba channels so as to be rid of 
the x86_64 packages, which I don't use, and which without 
being rid of would cause the updates to my machines to 
fail.  Also works fine.

BUT, I noticed after the manual update that my machines 
weren't seeing the new Samba packages.  It was only after I 
1) deleted the previous version packages in the original 
Samba channels, and 2) deleted the packages in the cloned 
Samba channels, that my machines now saw that updates were 
available.

I understand from the previous post that I have to 
accomplish 2) either manually or via a script.  My question 
though (and sorry it's taken me so long to get here) is 
should newly updated packages replace older ones in my 
original Samba channels (or any channels, for that matter), 
or must I go through this two-step process each time an 
update occurs?

Regards,

Dimitri

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