[Spacewalk-list] spacewalk 2.9 && never ending issue with ubuntu/debian clients

[Robert Paschedag]

Am 22. Februar 2019 13:11:00 MEZ schrieb Florin Portase <portase.florin at medianetork.ro>:
>On 2019-02-13 10:56, Florin Portase wrote:
>
>> Hello, 
>> 
>> I just have upgraded the spacewalk server from 2.7 => 2.9. 
>> 
>> I have applied also the sql patch from
>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1661347 
>> 
>> + upgraded the clients from : 
>> 
>>
>http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.9:/debclients/
>
>> 
>> Just to mention spacewalk 2.7 +  patches was working just fine for
>both debian & ubuntu. 
>> 
>> Now, for ubuntu 16.05 I have over 100 packages marked as up-gradable(
>over and over....) 
>> 
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>
>So, after digging through  SPW archive Dec '18 til Feb '19 finally I
>come to something more acceptable: 
>
>1. sync script for Ubuntu channels 
>
>2. "spacewalk-add-debian-multiarch-header.py.NEW " took it from
>"https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/2018-December/msg00017.html"
>
>
>wget  -q
>http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
> \
>        -O /tmp/Packages-xenial-main.gz && gunzip -f
>/tmp/Packages-xenial-main.gz
>wget  -q
>http://cz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial-updates/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
> \
>        -O /tmp/Packages-xenial-updates.gz  && gunzip -f
>/tmp/Packages-xenial-updates.gz
>wget  -q
>http://cz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial-security/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
>\
>        -O /tmp/Packages-xenial-security.gz && gunzip -f
>/tmp/Packages-xenial-security.gz
>
>s=180
>trap 'echo "Ctrl-C detected."' 2
>for (( i=$s ; i>0; i--));
>        do
>                #printf '\rFinishing sync in: %2d seconds' $i; sleep 1
>                echo -ne  "\rFinishing sync in: $i seconds\033[0K";
>sleep 1
>        done
>echo -e "\nSync completed!"
>trap 2
>               $_BIN_PATH/spacewalk-add-debian-multiarch-header.py.NEW 
>$_PKG_MAIN/Packages    /tmp/Packages-xenial-main
>               $_BIN_PATH/spacewalk-add-debian-multiarch-header.py.NEW 
>$_PKG_UPD/Packages      /tmp/Packages-xenial-updates
>               $_BIN_PATH/spacewalk-add-debian-multiarch-header.py.NEW 
>$_PKG_SEC/Packages      /tmp/Packages-xenial-security
>               $_BIN_PATH/spacewalk-add-debian-multiarch-header.py.NEW 
>$_PKG_UNIV/Packages    /tmp/Packages-xenial-universe
>
>                /bin/mv $_PKG_MAIN/Packages.new $_PKG_MAIN/Packages
>                /bin/mv $_PKG_SEC/Packages.new $_PKG_SEC/Packages
>                /bin/mv $_PKG_UPD/Packages.new $_PKG_UPD/Packages
>                /bin/mv $_PKG_UNIV/Packages.new $_PKG_UNIV/Packages
>
>                gzip < $_PKG_MAIN/Packages > $_PKG_MAIN/Packages.gz
>                gzip < $_PKG_UPD/Packages  > $_PKG_UPD/Packages.gz
>                gzip < $_PKG_SEC/Packages  > $_PKG_SEC/Packages.gz
>                gzip < $_PKG_UNIV/Packages > $_PKG_UNIV/Packages.gz
>
>cd $_PKG_MAIN
>        $_BIN_PATH/secureApt.sh  xenial xenial-main
>        touch -r Packages.gz  Packages
>cd $_PKG_UPD
>        $_BIN_PATH/secureApt.sh  xenial xenial-updates
>        touch -r Packages.gz  Packages
>cd $_PKG_SEC
>        $_BIN_PATH/secureApt.sh  xenial xenial-security
>        touch -r Packages.gz  Packages 
>
>So just to resume, SYNC =>OK, applying ALL missing headers =>OK, now
>the
>packages that are showed as up-gradable dropped from ~120 to only 6 (  
>base-files libbind9-140 libisc160 libisccc140 libisccfg140 liblwres141
>)
>
>
>~~BUT~~ 
>
>Here I run into another problem, it seems taskomatic is generating
>Package files over and over ( touch -r Packages.gz  Packages seems to
>have no effect)

This seems to be new. You might have to check within code, at which conditions a rebuild of the Packages file gets triggered 

I'm still on SW2.7 so I cannot test on my environment.

Robert



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