[Spacewalk-list] Concern over upgrades not showing...

[James Hogarth]

Hi,

The spacewalk 0.6 server on Centos 5.4 I have is using a scheduled cron job
to run spacewalk-repo-sync to import a variety of upstream repositories into
various channels. That appears to be running fine and I can see packages
being imported and see them in the required channels afterwards.

However this morning I noticed something a little odd.....

The spacewalk server itself reported that there was a new cups and cups-lib
package available for it - considering I have the cups service disabled I
wasn't concerned initially. It was only when looking into the other systems
that are subscribed to my spacewalk instance that I realised the package
should apply to most of them and yet only the spacewalk server itself showed
any packages out of date.


Comparing a system built a couple of weeks ago to one built yesterday shows


Package This System system2 Difference   cups
1.3.7-11.el5_4.3:1.x86_64 1.3.7-11.el5_4.4:1.x86_64 system2 newer
cups-libs
 1.3.7-11.el5_4.3:1.i386
 This system only   cups-libs
 1.3.7-11.el5_4.4:1.x86_64  system2 only   cups-libs 1.3.7-11.el5_4.3:1.x86_64
 This system only   cups-libs
 1.3.7-11.el5_4.4:1.i386  system2 only

However spacewalk shows no updates for 'this system' even though the
relevant packages if checked in the channel show 4.4 as a newer version of
4.3 and yum list updates on the system shows 4.4 as an update to 4.3.

If the newest package is chosen in the channel listing the older system is
showing as a valid target in target systems for deployment.

Both servers were built with the same kickstarts with the same activation
key and have the same channel subscriptions.

Any ideas?

James
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