[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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