[Spacewalk-list] Reverting an upgrade

[Devan Goodwin]

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On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:05:41 -0400
Cliff <cperry at redhat.com> wrote:

> m.roth2006 at rcn.com wrote:
> > For those of you who've responded today to my last problem with
> > pushing updates, please read the followups from Friday, when I
> > succeeded with everything.
> > 
> > Anyway, here's a question: all our systems are running under
> > VMware. I took a snapshot of the test clients, then I tested a full
> > upgrade - 32 packages, as it happens. 
> > 
> > So, I then wanted to revert, so I restored the test system using
> > the snapshot. Now I'm trying to get spacewalk to realize that what
> > it's got in its d/b isn't correct. I ran the verify, and it failed,
> > finding the upgrades undone. However, it still doesn't offer me
> > those failed ones as an upgrade. Is there any way to get spacewalk
> > to do so, or is it the case that once you upgrade, you can't go
> > back without deleting the system and reregistering?
> > 
> 
> try 'rhn-profile-sync' to ensure package profile within Spacewalk DB
> for system is in sync with client. Not sure if it helps.
> 
> > An example of why we might want to do this would be if there was an
> > intrusion, and we restored from a template or pre-upgrade backup,
> > and then wanted to do the upgrade.
> > 
> >     mark
> > 
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> 
> I know we have a few kinks within system snapshot/restore which we
> are working on fixing still (bugs are aligned to the Satellite
> trackers). It is possible you are hitting some of those issues.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=sat530-snapshots
> 
> One alternative is usage off and creating System profiles and then
> doing compare + sync processes.
> 
> Having said the two above, I will be honest in saying I am a bit
> lost, there is not enough exact information here for me to follow and 
> replicate as if I was when trying to track down a bugzilla bug
> report, so making assumptions :)
> 
> Cliff
> 

I would have said [system] -> Software -> Update Package List in the
web ui, probably does the same thing.

Devan

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  Devan Goodwin <dgoodwin at redhat.com>
  Software Engineer     Spacewalk / RHN Satellite
  Halifax, Canada       650.567.9039x79267
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