[Spacewalk-list] Can osad and jabberpy packages on the clients be upgraded by spacewalk?

[Giovanni Torres]

As long as the two packages and any dependencies are in a software channel and systems are subscribed to it, spacewalk can upgrade these on clients.
That version of osad seems really old.  What version of spacewalk are you running?  What version are the clients subscribed to?
OSAD is intended to be a faster supplement to rhnsd, which runs rhn_check ever 240 minutes by default to see if there are any events in a system's queue.  OSAD uses jabber and is supposed to speed up this process.  OSAD, however, is a fickle one and doesn't always work as expected.

Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 08:02:14 -0700
From: fnwsa at yahoo.com
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: [Spacewalk-list] Can osad and jabberpy packages on the clients be	upgraded by spacewalk?

Hi,
Can these osad and jabberpy packages be upgraded?

osad-5.9.10-5.el4sat.noarch
jabberpy-0.5-0.15.el4.noarch
The patching process was hung and can't be finished. My understanding is that because osad and jabberpy are used by the spacewalk clients to communicate with the spacewalk server, these packages can not be upgraded because their services can be interrupted.
 nz
    
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