[Spacewalk-list] How can my CentOS 6.5 be up to date?

[Stephen Herr]

The question Spacewalk is asking / answering when it shows you updates 
available to your system is "Are there any newer versions of packages 
installed on this system in channels this system is subscribed to".

In your case, if the 6.5 client is subscribed to a 6.5 channel that only 
has packages up through 6.5 in it, then everything will be up to date. 
The fact that 6.6 has been released somewhere else is not relevant, what 
matters is what's in the channel and what's on the system.

-Stepehn

On 11/06/2014 10:59 AM, Daryl Rose wrote:
> Michael,
>
> I'm not sure that I understand your response.  The client is CentOS 6.5,
> not 6.6. Yes, the Spacewalk server is 6.6, but the client is 6.5.  I
> purposefully chose 6.5 because its an older release and I know there are
> a number of packages that would be out of date.
>
> Thank you
>
> Daryl
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Michael Mraka <michael.mraka at redhat.com
> <mailto:michael.mraka at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     Daryl Rose wrote:
>     % I just recently installed Spacewalk on a CentOS 6.6 server.   I
>     created a
>     % 6.5 channel and repository and I just stood up a CentOS 6.5 client
>     server
>     % and registered it on to the Spacewalk server.
>     %
>     % When I initially stood up the 6.5 client, I looked to see how many
>     how many
>     % updated packages it needed by doing a "yum update".  It needed 264
>     % packages, however, I DID NOT perform the update.  Just looking.  I
>     then
>     % registered the 6.5 client with the Spacewalk server and checked to
>     see if
>     % it was up to date or not.  Spacewalk is telling me that the client is
>     % up-to-date.  This is not accurate, why?
>
>     So you have CentOS 6.5 client registered to CentOS 6.5 channel in
>     Spacewalk.
>     And Spacewalk UI says it's up-to-date. Why do you think it isn't
>     accurate?
>
>     If you don't have 6.6 packages in Spacewalk then it can hardly know
>     about updates.
>
>     % Thanks.
>     %
>     % Daryl
>
>     Regards,
>
>     --
>     Michael Mráka
>     Satellite Engineering, Red Hat
>
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