[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk and Ubuntu version handling

[Paul-Andre Panon]

We switched to Spacewalk 2.7 late last week to see how things are working out with Ubuntu and the PR500 changes. It does seem to have improved a lot but we're still seeing some issues. We have some systems where Spacewalk appears to recommend upgrading to packages that are actually a downgrade.

Latest Package                                                                                                                          Installed Package
compiz-0.9.11+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1:1.all-deb                                                  compiz-0.9.11.3+14.04.20160425-0ubuntu1:1.all-deb
compiz-core-0.9.11+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1:1.amd64-deb                               compiz-core-0.9.11.3+14.04.20160425-0ubuntu1:1.amd64-deb
compiz-gnome-0.9.11+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1:1.amd64-deb                         compiz-gnome-0.9.11.3+14.04.20160425-0ubuntu1:1.amd64-deb
compiz-plugins-default-0.9.11+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1:1.amd64-deb         compiz-plugins-default-0.9.11.3+14.04.20160425-0ubuntu1:1.amd64-deb
gcc-4.9-base-4.9-20140406-0ubuntu1.amd64-deb                                                     gcc-4.9-base-4.9.3-0ubuntu4.amd64-deb
libcompizconfig0-0.9.11+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1:1.amd64-deb                      libcompizconfig0-0.9.11.3+14.04.20160425-0ubuntu1:1.amd64-deb
libdecoration0-0.9.11+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1:1.amd64-deb                           libdecoration0-0.9.11.3+14.04.20160425-0ubuntu1:1.amd64-deb
libgcc1-4.9-20140406-0ubuntu1:1.amd64-deb                                                              libgcc1-4.9.3-0ubuntu4:1.amd64-deb

If we select them by accident, the client notices that the packages are a downgrade and refuses to install them. However it does mean that we have systems being reported as having a number of outstanding patches when they are actually up to date.

Paul-Andre Panon
Senior systems administrator

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