[Spacewalk-list] Debian package comparison failing.

[Robert Paschedag]

Hi Paul,

Problem has been solved. All good. Your code works. It was an outdated Packages.gz file.

Robert

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Von: Paul-Andre Panon <paul-andre.panon at avigilon.com>
Gesendet: Wed Jul 31 20:08:45 GMT+02:00 2019
An: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Betreff: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Debian package comparison failing.

Well, looks like the Ubuntu apt-get is the one that's getting it wrong
here and that Spacewalk is correct (for these packages). That's what it
looked like to me on your first e-mail but I wasn't certain, however this
seems to confirm it. Now, have you tried to update with rhn_check after
approving the package updates in Spacewalk?

It's been annoying me that Ubuntu seems to take great liberties with the
Debian package versioning standards but it appears to be a new low for
them to manage to come up with versions that seem to break their own
hacked up versioning algorithms. You could try to crank up the logging on
the rhn_check, to verify that those package versions are being recommended
by Spacewalk (or look at the event history?) but if Spacewalk is
suggesting python-ethtool-0.14-1.amd64-deb and the apt-get client is
rejecting it, then the client is wrong. If that only happens with apt-get
however, then maybe there's a bug in the apt-get=>spacewalk glue/shim in
separating and parsing the package version and breaking it down into
epoch/upstream-version/Debian-version (which would be my guess with
python-gobject-2 but unfortunately doesn't make sense with the others)

Cheers,

Paul-Andre

On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 17:36:34 +0200, philippe bidault
<philippe.bidault at gmail.com> wrote:
>Nope, no lock or nothing similar:
>
>root at debian10:~# dpkg -l | grep python-eth
>ii  python-ethtool              0.12-1.1                   amd64
>       Python bindings for the ethtool kernel interface
>
>Regards,
>Philippe.
>
>On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 at 15:02, Michael Mraka <michael.mraka at redhat.com>
>wrote:
>
>> philippe bidault:
>> > Hi Michael,
>> >
>> > Here are the installed versions:
>> >
>> > root at debian10:~# dpkg -l | grep python-go
>> > ii  python-gobject              3.22.0-2                   all
>> >          Python 2.x bindings for GObject - transitional package
>> > ii  python-gobject-2            2.28.6-13                  amd64
>> >        deprecated static Python bindings for the GObject library
>> > root at debian10:~# dpkg -l | grep python-eth
>> > ii  python-ethtool              0.12-1.1                   amd64
>> >        Python bindings for the ethtool kernel interface
>> >
>> > So this is in fact matching what appears in the "Installed Package"
column
>> > in the Spacewalk web console. The Debian 10 client just does not see
>> > the 3 updates.
>>
>> Can't they be somehow excluded / version-locked / ... etc?
>> If you use dpkg to list all available python-ethtool packages can you
>> see
>> python-ethtool-0.14-1 among them?
>>
>> > Regards,
>> > Philippe.
>> ...
>> > > > Latest Package                           Installed Package
>> > > > python-ethtool-0.14-1.amd64-deb
python-ethtool-0.12-1.1.amd64-deb
>> > > > python-gobject-3.30.4-1.all-deb
python-gobject-3.22.0-2.all-deb
>> > > > python-gobject-2-2.28.6-13+b1.amd64-deb
python-gobject-2-2.28.6-13.amd64-deb
>> > > >
>> > > > But on the registered debian 10 server, "apt update" is telling
me that all
>> > > > the packages are already up-to-date.
>> > >
>> > > What version of python-ethtool, python-gobject and
>> > > python-gobject-2 do you have installed on the debian server?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> --
>> Michael Mr?ka
>> System Management Engineering, Red Hat
>>
>

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