[Spacewalk-list] packagekit offline update with spacewalk

[BUCHER Bernhard]

hi michael,
thanks for your response.

we supply our "customers" (actually colleagues in our company) with an vmware image which they can use for specific tasks.
on these vms a standard user will not get root, so yum is not a possibility. schedule updates from spacewalk would work but i want the users to decide themselves when to update (not on security erratas, but still).

the goal i want to achieve in the end is that a user without root rights is able to update packages and get notifications when updates are possible. since the notification is not included anymore with just packagekit (gpk-update-icon is missing) i need to use gnome-software for the notification which seems to be just another layer above packagekit. this function works on a rhel7client subscribed to the redhat network. the only difference i can find regarding the update process are the missing entries in redhat.repo.

br,
bernhard


-----Original Message-----
From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Michael Mraka
Sent: Dienstag, 20. März 2018 09:26
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] packagekit offline update with spacewalk

BUCHER Bernhard:
> hi guys,

Hello Bernhard,

> i enrolled a redhat 7.4 client with spacewalk.
> if new updates are available gnome-software will announce it via a notification on the screen. after opening the application installer and hitting updates->restart & install the vm restarts but the updates are not installed.
> 
> after the reboot pkcon offline-status shows:
> Status:  Failed
> ErrorCode:failed-initialization
> ErrorDetails:cannot find repo rech_rhel-7-desktop-rpms
> 
> i checked, that process of the offline update works till the point where it cant find the channel for the updates. i assume since the network is not running in the offline update and rhnsd.service is stopped it can't find the respective channel.
> on "normal" redhat installations there are channels enabled in /etc/yum.repo.d/redhat.repo which is empty on spacewalk systems.
> has anyone already encountered that problem? is there a way to point the offline update to the yum cache which gets build beforehand? or would the only solution be to edit systemd targets and fire up network and rhnsd?

Frankly I don't use Packagekit. On commandline, yum is able to download packages (from Spacewalk) to cache and then install them from cache.
I.e.
        yum install --downloadonly package
        yum install -C package

And even better when using Spacewalk you can shedule package updates on
(all) clients from Spacewalk web interface. Including 'download now, install later' type of functionality.

> thanks in advance,
> bernhard

Regards,


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Michael Mráka
System Management Engineering, Red Hat

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