[Spacewalk-list] question about kernel updates

Mike McCune mmccune at redhat.com
Mon Aug 11 15:46:57 UTC 2008


Michiel van Es wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have mixed Centos 4 and 5 clients conneted tot my spacewalk server.
> My spacewalk server is getting the updates every night and push them in
> to the satelite.
> 
> On a CentOS 4 client, yum is still enabled and I can see updates that
> the Spacewalk server is not showing to the client (everything is ok )
> But on the client I can still see a kernel update and an sos update:
> 
> 
> =============================================================================
>  Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
> =============================================================================
> Installing:
>  kernel                  i686       2.6.9-67.0.22.EL  update
>  12 M
> Updating:
>  rhnlib                  noarch     2.1.2-11.el4
> spacewalk-client-tools  101 k
>  sos                     noarch     1.7-6.1.el4_6.3  update            102 k
> 
> Transaction Summary
> =============================================================================
> 
> When I do a rhn_check -vv I get the following error on the client:
> 
> 
> local action status:  (0, 'rpm database not modified since last update
> (or package list recently updated)', {})
> 
> I DO see the package being installed in the satelite folder:
> 
> /repodata/repositories/CentOS4_updates/CentOS4_updates/RPMS/kernel-2.6.9-67.0.22.EL.i686.rpm
> 
> How can I let spacewalk push the kernel update to the client and why
> doesn't the client sees the update? (it used rhnsd and osad).

Check /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date.  Look for the pkgSkipList:

pkgSkipList=kernel*;

By default I believe we skip kernel updates, but I'm not entirely sure why.

Mike
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