[Spacewalk-list] Repo update question

[Thomas Foster]

I want to understand your setup let me know if this is correct.

You have a cloned channel that servers are subscribed to and that channel
is updated on Saturday(manually or job created?) from sernet with Samba
packages.  When a new package is added your servers do not see the package
until you delete the previous package from the cloned channel, right?  When
you delete the package you do not clear the cache and run yum update
package and it can see the new package or do you run yum clean all then
update?
On Aug 15, 2013 10:52 AM, "Dimitri Yioulos" <dyioulos at onpointfc.com> wrote:

> 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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