[Spacewalk-list] Repo question...

[Christoph Galuschka]

So, when you look at mirrors:
6.10 is the current point release of CentOS-6
6 is a symbolic link pointing to 6.10
6.9 and older usually only contain a readme file, since the content of 
previous point releases gets moved to vault.centos.org and no longer 
resides on mirrors (to save space).

If there would be a 6.11, the new 6.11 directory will appear in the 
mirrors, and the 6-symlink will point to 6.11

Here is what I do:
/os and /updates point to a local public mirror directly to the point 
release directory. Once a new point release comes out, I change the repo 
definitions in spacewalk, remove all packages from both spacewalk repos 
and resync.

Best regards
Christoph

Am 17.01.2019 um 23:06 schrieb Dave Thoms:
> I did check /etc/yum.repos.d and did a "dry run" of yum on the machine.  
> There are more updates using a local yum update from the command line 
> than from Spacewalk.  The one that caught my eye, and concern, was a new 
> kernel.
> 
> 
> So.  Do I use the specific version directory when setting up the 
> Spacewalk repo (6.10) or do I use 6.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dave T.
> 
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> Might you have packages installed from repos which are not accounted for 
> in Spacewalk?You might want to look in /etc/yum.repos.d, as well as to 
> run yum update on one of your machines (without actually installing the 
> updates), and check those against what Spacewalk would update.
> 
> Dimitri
> 
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> *Subject:* [Spacewalk-list] Repo question...
> 
> I am using Spacewalk 2.8 on CentOS 7.  I still have lingering CentOS 6 
> (technically 6.10) machines that need updates. I noticed that the amount 
> of update that updates available for my 6.10 machines under a local yum 
> update are different that what Spacewalk offers.  So I did some digging 
> via browser in http://mirror.chpc.utah.edu/pub/centos (a physically near 
> mirror) and found very specific directories like 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 
> 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 6.9, and 6.10.  I current have the repo for my 
> CentOS 6 machines set to use "6" in Spacewalk, but my CentOS machines 
> are really "6.10".  What directory should I be using?  I thought "6" 
> covered all the 6's.  But, maybe not.
> 
> Why is it so hard to find this info online?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Dave T.
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