[Spacewalk-list] channel weirdness

[Guy Matz]

Thanks for the reply!  I'm still seeing weirdness a week later.  I've 'yum
clean all'ed a number of times, still can't figure this out!

On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 1:10 PM Brian Long <briandlong at gmail.com> wrote:

> There are a couple of things to check.  When you promote a channel
> using spacewalk-manage-channel-lifecycle, it takes a while for spacewalk to
> generate the new yum metadata (could be 5-15 minutes depending on your
> server and other activities).  You can run "ls -ltr /var/cache/rhn/repodata
> | tail" to see if the channel you promoted has updated the metadata.  Also,
> yum-based systems typically cache the repodata locally for six hours.
> Unless you run "yum clean metadata" and "yum check-update" manually, it
> could be up to six hours before your hosts see the updated repodata from
> Spacewalk.  This can be lowered in /etc/yum.conf on each client, but it
> will add more load to your spacewalk server.
>
> /Brian/
>
> On Fri, Jul 9, 2021 at 6:48 PM Guy Matz <guymatz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello!  I have archived my prod channel and promoted from test to prod,
>> however my clients don't see the new updates in the prod channel!  I see
>> the updates on the spacewalk server, but not on the clients!  What's up
>> with that?!
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