[Spacewalk-list] Exclude Packages

[Covil, K (Kim)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Miroslav Suchý
> Sent: 23 July 2008 09:45
>
> Frank Paulick wrote:
> > another question i have is if there is a way to compare systems
> > regarding the installed packages ?
> > so far i only found the verify option.
> > my problem is that i have a few systems (all centos 4 i386) where i
> > would like to know which packages need to be installed to have them
> all
> > in the same state
>
> There is tab Profiles, just beside Verify tab (System
> detail->software->Packages->Profiles).
> It do exactly what you want and as bonus you can name and store the
> profile.

I haven't checked, but beware there was/is a bug in Satellite where it struggled to compare x86_64 RHEL 4 systems as it couldn't determine the architecture of the packages when both the 32bit and 64bit versions were installed. This I believe is a bug in up2date on RHEL 4 not reporting the architectures with a package update as RHEL 5 seems to understand the architectures and the database structures to hold the architectures are in place.

The web interface also doesn't do a very good job of showing the architecture of a package and this is a common problem throughout for dual architectured machines like x86_64 boxes.

Regards,

Kim
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