[Spacewalk-list] Updates shown in Spacewalk but not on clients.

[Speagle, Andy]

> > I suspect this has probably been covered in a previous post, but I
> > couldn’t seem to find it with a quick search.  This is something
> > recent that has cropped up.  I have clients for which Spacewalk shows
> > updated to be installed… but the hosts cannot see them.  I’ve tried
> > clearing the yum cache and the repodata on the Spacewalk server shows
> > that it has been rebuilt this morning… and I see the packages in
> > question in the packages directory on the Spacewalk server.
> >
> >
> >
> > But… when I try to schedule the updates via Spacewalk… or manually
> > install them using yum on the client… they aren’t available.
> 
> I've had this where taskomatic hasn't run to rebuild the yum metadata.
> Restarting taskomatic seems to fix it.
> 
> Also, yum does cache its metadata for a set period before downloading it
> again. I've found that I have to frequently do a "yum clean all" before I
> deploy new packages to clients, particularly for my custom channels.

Aye... it must have been something strange with taskomatic.  I for certain did the usual 'yum clean all' ... and I looked at the channel in question and the metadata seemed new'ish... 

Thanks for the insight.

Andy