[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk installation clean up after longer time of running adn adding channels - Some questions

[Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator]

Hi, that helped a lot!
Am 21.08.15 um 15:17 schrieb Silvio Moioli:
> On 21/08/2015 14:53, Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator wrote:
>> a) After updating the spacewalk server, I do have to update the client
>> repositories and GPG Keys to the corresponding version?
> 
> This should not be needed - as long as the client tools packages are up
> to date and the server channels are up to date you should be fine.
> 
>> b) why is the system overview fine, and a local yum update not?
> 
> Because as you stated clients have both Spacewalk and external repos.
> Clients should only have Spacewalk repos and get all updates from there.
> 
> Whether your server channels are up-to-date or not (ie. wether reposync
> is working correctly or not) is a different issue!


Uh o.k I remember that I had a reposync problem some time ago ... I'll
check that!


>> c) why is a local yum update not pulling the updates from my spycewalk
>> server but from the official mirrors?
> 
> Probably something or someone added official mirrors to the client,
> while clients should only have Spacewalk repositories.

So I can disable all repos managed by my spycewalkserver on the client
servers by a) removing the yum conf or b) disabling the channel
(enabled=0 in the yum conf.)?

	/Götz

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