[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk and Ubuntu version handling

[Paul-Andre Panon]

Guten abend Herr Paschedag,

The upgrade documentation wasn't clear, so I wiped out all the channels, repos, and orphan packages using http://www.hrbac.cz/2017/06/proper-way-to-delete-channelrepositorypackages-in-spacewalk/ (except for the last step since /srv/satellite is empty, and /var/satellite had no symlinks)
Then I rebuilt my channels and repos, and re-synced the packages from the repos. And then for good measure I decided I had made a mistake, deleted my security and update channels with combined main/universe repos (same cleanup process) and rebuilt them with 1 repo/channel. So those channels got cleaned twice :-)

I have a separate file system set up for the Spacewalk var tree, and the space usage had gone down significantly during the cleanups (90+%=>20+%), with the remaining usage consistent with the CentOS channels that were left untouched, so I'm fairly sure they were effective. However I'll run any DB queries you might suggest to confirm.

Cheers,

Paul-Andre Panon
Senior systems administrator

Office: 604.629.5182 ext 2341 Mobile: 604.679.1617


-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Paschedag [mailto:robert.paschedag at web.de] 
Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2017 2:27 AM
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com; Paul-Andre Panon <paul-andre.panon at avigilon.com>; spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk and Ubuntu version handling

Am 15. September 2017 21:46:56 MESZ schrieb Paul-Andre Panon <paul-andre.panon at avigilon.com>:
>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
>
>Office: 604.629.5182 ext 2341 Mobile: 604.679.1617
>
>
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Did you "fully" remove all packages from spacewalk and synced them again before you tried that?

Robert