[Spacewalk-list] Server not seeing updates available for clients

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:14:03AM -0400, Kyaphas G Hill wrote:
> My 1.1 Spacewalk server has stopped showing updates available for clients, 
> even though running "yum check-update" on clients shows that several 
> updates are available. 
> 
> The systems are CentOS 5.6, and I recall an email previously that said you 
> might have to flush your channels due to a signature issue. I wasn't sure 
> exactly how to flush the channels, so I just created new ones, moved the 
> systems over and they saw their updates for a while. Now it's stopped 
> again.
> 
> Is there something else I need to change?

We've fixed a couple of issues with the regeneration of the "package
cache" which holds lists of package that might need to get updated
since 1.1.

You might want to upgrade your Spacewalk server to 1.4.

Yours,

-- 
Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat