[Spacewalk-list] CentOS 8 Client

Tue Oct 22 17:54:59 UTC 2019

My test CentOS EL8 clients build from the repos and subscribe (without a
spacewalk-client channel) just perfectly.  And the GUI has a nice little
warning to not use it for package operations.  

“At least one of the channels this system is subscribed to contains modules.
If you have activated modules on this system, please refrain from using
Spacewalk for package operations. Instead, perform all package actions from
the client using dnf.”

My current issue though is whenever a subscribed (EL8) client attempts to
update, every package on the system wants to reinstall even if no updates
are applicable; unless I disable its Spacewalk-based repos.  The source of
the packages shouldn’t have a bearing, but it appears to.  Some of my
deployments are unable to reach the external repos.  So I will have to wait
until this is resolved to upgrade.

Steve Alder

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Hi,

On 10/22/19 4:59 PM, Jody McIvor wrote:

Hi Steve,

I was unaware that this might be an issue. Our enterprise uses Centos
clients as well and thousands of them. Your question concerned me so I did
some googling. I assume you have done the same. I came up with:
https://www.unixsysadmin.com/rhel-8-resources/

In this document they touch on Spacewalk support on RedHat 8 (RHEL/CENTOS)
and although you can't run the SERVER on it, they say client is supported.

Are you aware of something I should be concerned about?

The important caveat is that you shouldn't use Spacewalk for any package
operations if you use any of the modular repos. Since the modularity logic
is not implemented there, it might suggest you incorrect updates. You should
use the client's CLI to do updates instead.

Jody McIvor
Sr. Systems Administrator, Integration
Les Services D'intégration
[TEL] (250) 852-5202

jmcivor at bclc.com <mailto:jmcivor at bclc.com> 
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   1. Re: Scheduling an action via XMLRPC API? (Michael Mraka)
   2. Re: Updatesicon in System Groups always green (Michael Mraka)
   3. CentOS 8 client (Steve Kent)

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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 10:00:25 +0200
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Guy Matz:

Hello!  Does anyone know how to schedule an action with the XMLRPC
API?  I see actionchains, but not plain old actions . . .  does that exist?

Hello,

https://spacewalkproject.github.io/documentation/api/2.9/handlers/SystemHand
ler.html
See schedule* methods.

Thanks,
Guy

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 11:39:31 +0200
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Matthias Gruber:

Hi!

Perhaps thats a known bug, but the Update-Sign in my System
Groups-Page is always green

But when I have a look into a group e.g. 02-uc4-patched

The Update-Sign is correct.
Yes I cleared the cache, and also used other Browser, same result

What did I miss or did I forget somthing to configure ?

That is a SW 2.9 on a CentOS 7

Hello Matthias,

I think it's issue fixed by
https://github.com/spacewalkproject/spacewalk-wiki/pull/17

Cheers
Matthias

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Has there been any work on the CentOS 8 client yet?

Thanks,

Steve Kent

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