[Spacewalk-list] yum update does not see any new packages from a spacewalk server.

[Michael Mraka]

Eugene wrote:
% client
% # yum repolist
% Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit,
%               : rhnplugin
% repo id                                   repo name                       status
% adobe-linux-x86_64                        Adobe Systems Incorporated           2
% fedora16-x86_64                           Fedora 16 (x86_64)              25,098
% fedora16-x86_64-cinnamon                  Fedora 16 cinnamon (x86_64)          4
% fedora16-x86_64-debug                     Fedora 16 Debug (x86_64)         5,659
% fedora16-x86_64-rpmfusion                 Fedora 16 rpmfusion (x86_64)       428
% fedora16-x86_64-rpmfusion-nonfree         Fedora 16 rpmfusion nonfree (x8    171
% fedora16-x86_64-rpmfusion-nonfree-updates Fedora 16 rpmfusion nonfree upd    447
% fedora16-x86_64-rpmfusion-updates         Fedora 16 rpmfusion updates (x8    894
% fedora16-x86_64-updates                   Fedora 16 Updates (x86_64)      14,951
% spacewalk-client                          Spacewalk Client Tools              21
% repolist: 47,675
% 
% # yum list updates
% Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit,
%               : rhnplugin
% 
% server
% # ls -al /var/spool/rhn/repodata/*
% ls: cannot access /var/spool/rhn/repodata/*: No such file or directory

It should be
 ls -al /var/cache/rhn/repodata/*/*

% >>  # yum update -v -v
% >>  Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
% >>  Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
% >>  Config time: 0.098
% >>  Yum Version: 3.2.22
% >>  Setting up Package Sacks
% >>  Looking for repo options for [centos5-i386]
% >>  Looking for repo options for
% >>  [spacewalk-nightly-client-centos5-i386] Looking for repo
% >>  options for [centos5-i386-updates] Determining fastest mirrors
% >>  rpmdb time: 0.000
% >>  Setting up Update Process
% >>  Updating Everything
% >>  Building updates object
% >>  Setting up Package Sacks
% >>  Setting up Package Sacks
% >>  up:Obs Init time: 0.001
% >>  up:simple updates time: 0.000
% >>  up:obs time: 0.000
% >>  up:condense time: 0.000
% >>  updates time: 0.076
% >>  No Packages marked for Update

Also check that you don't have packages excluded in /etc/yum.conf,
/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/rhnplugin.conf or /etc/yum.repos.d/*.

You may also check whether yum can see any of packages webUI suggests
for update:
yum list --showduplicates package1 package2 ...

Regards,

--
Michael Mráka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat