[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk server update list different from yum

[Michael Mraka]

Franky Van Liedekerke wrote:
% On Mon, 28 May 2012 14:13:04 +0000
% "Velayutham, Prakash" <Prakash.Velayutham at cchmc.org> wrote:
% 
% > Hi,
% > 
% > I just noticed that the update list for one of the clients (I am sure
% > there are other clients with this issue too) is different when I
% > check using "yum check-update" on the client compared to what the
% > Spacewalk server shows. Is this expected?
% > 
% > Spacewalk version - 1.6
% 
% I noticed it too, even with 1.7: it seems that "yum update" (or
% check-update) also lists packages that will replace other packages,
% while spacewalk just seems to update to the newest version of each of
% the installed packages, plus dependancies.

Another reason for this behavior could be use of yum plugins
which modify list of packages - e.g. priorities, protect-packages,
protectbase, versionlock etc.

Spacewalk has no idea what's filtered out locally on the client.

Regards,

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Michael Mráka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat