[Spacewalk-list] System installed packages auditing

[Bruncko Michal]

ok,seem there is pretty nice yum transactions auditing with using "yum 
history" and downgrade possibility with "yum downgrade". but anyway is 
there option to see system packages auditing in Spacewalk?

thanks

michal

On 2016-06-06 11:25, Bruncko Michal wrote:
> hello list
> 
> I use spacewalk server (2.4) as repository for package installation
> and deployment for couple of systems. sometimes I am using webgui
> based package deployment, sometimes I use yum form CLI. Recently new
> centos 6.8 has been released and I used yum on specific system to get
> it upgraded to 6.8 (~170 packages getting upgraded). installation was
> completed successfully but then I realized that some
> application-related-service stopped working properly and based on
> error message (httpd - child pid XXX exit signal Illegal instruction)
> I decided to not fight with fixing (as this was looking like
> library/instruction/whatever issue rather than configuration) and
> wanted to downgrade some specific packages. So I decided to start
> downgrading httpd packages and now the point why I am writing here in
> this list: I was not able simply to find out the name of original
> httpd package name-version installed on affected system from before
> the upgrade that I wanted to use again. Yes, from /var/log/yum.log I
> can see the latest package name-version and time when update happen.
> But I was not able to find previous package version nowhere. Thanks to
> other not-yet-upgraded systems I retrieved package name-version from
> them and use it for downgrading on affected system.
> 
> questions:
> 
> 1. provides spacewalk any functionality regards to list of packages
> installed per system with focus historical view? i.e. to see not only
> the latest installed packages, but also older packages. I.e. I am
> looking for installed packages auditing tool (what packages were
> changed and when).
> 
> 2. what way did you use if you decide to downgrade some package on
> system? my steps are following:
>  --> identify which package has to be downgraded (in case of some 
> issue)
>  --> download that package from public repository
>  --> and manual installation using "rpm --ivhU --nodeps --force 
> packagename"
> yes, looks like dirty way, but if somebody can give me better option I
> would very likely to use instead of this one.
> 
> thanks and cheers
> 
> michal
> 
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