[Spacewalk-list] all packages listed as upgradable on debian 9 and ubuntu 1604

[Robert Paschedag]

Am 14. März 2018 16:25:30 MEZ schrieb Andrei Popenta <andrei.popenta at visma.com>:
>Hi guys
>
>i'm running spacewalk 2.7 with debian 8, debian 9 and ubuntu 16.04
>channels.
>
>one problem I am facing is that if apt uses
>only /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spacewalk.list as lists when I run apt
>update
>it shows that 400 packages are available for upgrade.
>If I add the official sources in /etc/apt/sources.list it shows that
>only
>29 packages are available for upgrade which is true.
>This happens both for debian 9 and ubuntu 16.04.
>Debian 8 is not affected by this.
>
>I know that someone else has faced this issue before, as I noticed 2
>comments on this article
>http://www.devops-blog.net/spacewalk/registering-ubuntu-and-debian-servers-with-spacewalk
>but couldn't find any solution for it.
>
>Do you know what might cause this ?
>
>I have added Dirk's workaround mentioned
>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243387
>to  /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50spacewalk.
>
>thanks,
>Andrei

Hi,

in Debian 9, apt got some improvements. These improvements caused me a lot headache. My problem was, that although I ran apt-get upgrade, all packages were again upgradable (over and over again)

This is caused by the "Multi-Arch" header, which is missing in the packages.gz files generated by SW.

To compensate this, I'm really using a lot of workarounds.

First... Use Steve Meiers Script to download all packages and (rhnpush) them into the database.

But I modified this script to also extract the "Multi-Arch" header of a package (if present) and store this information for later usage (name, version, architecture)

After the import, I wait several minutes to let SW do its jobs (create the packages.gz files).

I then patch these files and add the missing "Multi-Arch" headers to the packages.gz.

Before Debian 9, the official repo had only a few packages with "Multi-Arch" headers.

In Debian 9, the "main" channel has nearly 9000 packages with these headers.

Robert

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