[Spacewalk-list] Some CentOS/EL6 Packages show up for EL7, and some EL7 for EL6

[Ricky Boone]

Adding further to the mystery...

When I look at the logs under /var/log/rhn/reposync, I don't see any
mention of el7 in centos6-x86_64-updates.log, or el6 in
centos7-x86_64-updates.log.  Strange...

I've removed the el7 packages from CentOS 6 Updates, and visa versa,
but yum update still marks the offending packages as available (even
after yum clean all).  I'm sure I'm missing a step, but I'll dig
around some more.

On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Ricky Boone <ricky.boone at gmail.com> wrote:
> My apologies for starting a new thread... there appears to be an
> existing thread going on here, but I just subbed to this list, so I
> can't reply to it yet.
>
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/2015-December/msg00024.html
>
> I think I see similar behavior with my system.  The issue was prompted
> by a coworker that noticed some odd yum errors when he was trying to
> update one of his systems.  When I looked into it, the update was
> trying to install EL7 packages on his EL6 system.
>
> The Spacewalk server is running version 2.3, on CentOS 6.7, but has
> been upgraded from Spacewalk 2.2.  All of the repositories were
> created by spacewalk-common-channels while on 2.2.  All of the
> repositories are one-to-one with their respective channel (CentOS 7
> Updates x86_64, etc.), with no repositories being linked to other
> channels.
>
> When I search for el6 under Packages in the "CentOS 7 Updates
> (x86_64)" channel, there are currently 142 matches, ranging from
> autocorr-af-4.2.8.2-11.el6_7.1:1.noarch to
> openssl-static-1.0.1e-42.el6_7.1.x86_64.  Alternatively, when I search
> for el7 in "CentOS 6 Updates (x86_64)", there are 134 matches.  I have
> not checked all channels yet.
>
> My suspicion is that there was something going on with the
> mirrorlist.centos.org site, sending requests for one release to the
> other, or that one of the mirrors had the wrong release listed for the
> wrong URL, etc.  I can't prove this, but that's all I can think of at
> the moment.  When I manually browse some of the sites returned, they
> look okay.
>
> I'm going to try removing the offending packages and manually running
> a sync... and do a couple spot checks to be sure that none of them
> somehow ended up on the wrong platforms.
>
> Any thoughts would be appreciated.