[Spacewalk-list] Debian package comparison failing.

Wed Jul 31 21:21:50 UTC 2019

Hi Paul,

Yes sorry for this, false alert, the repodata for this repository was
broken.

Regards,
Philippe.

On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 at 20:53, Robert Paschedag <robert.paschedag at web.de>
wrote:

> Hi Paul,
>
> Problem has been solved. All good. Your code works. It was an outdated
> Packages.gz file.
>
> Robert
>
> ⁣sent from my mobile device
>
>
> -------- Originale Nachricht --------
> 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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