[Spacewalk-list] Upgrading SLES SP3 to SP4

[Daryl Rose]

Alan,


I am far from the expert here on this mailing list.  I had ask the experts on this list myself on how to accomplish this task.


What I did was to register a server to SCC, then use that servers credentials in the URL of the channel repository.  Actually, registered two servers with SCC, one for the SP3 channel, and one for the SP4 channel.


Daryl


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Daryl,

  A separate SLES11 topic question for you. How do you sync your SLES11P3  and now SP4 channels? I’m downloading SLES11SP3  RPMs to an SMT server and them copying them across to my Spacewalk server, running createrepo and finally, loading them into the appropriate channel with the spacewalk-repo-sync command. I would like to eliminate the SMT server, but not sure how.



Alan



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Please ignore my last message.  I finally answered my own questions.



I'm not sure why the "test" SLES 11 SP3 severs were showing as being up-to-date, but I finally stop/started SW, and they started showing as needing updates.



I did an upgrade of one on those test machines from an ISO image.  We decided to perform all upgrades via ISO image, and not from SW,  so I wanted to test using the method that was agreed on.  After the upgrade was completed, I changed the channel to SLES 11 SP4/SLES 11 SP4 Updates.  I issued a "zypper ref" to refresh the repositories on the client, and they are now requiring updates from the new channels.



Thank you for the help.  It is very much appreciated.



Daryl





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Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list]   Upgrading SLES SP3 to SP4



I have a couple of questions.



1.  The command "zypper dup" say's that it performs a distribution upgrade.  Are you suggesting that I upgrade this way?

2.  I'm currently testing with a couple of test servers that I have.  I did a fresh install of SLES 11 SP3, registered it with my SW server, but it registered as "System is up-to-date".



I know this server needs updates.  I can run "zypper lu" and see that it needs a number of updates.

Yet, SW still claims that it is up-to-date.  I have a handful of other server, SLES 11 SP3, and all registered exactly the same, and all show that they require updates.  I can't figure out why these test servers are different.



Thanks.



Daryl





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Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list]   Upgrading SLES SP3 to SP4



Hi Daryl,

I would just change the channels of the clients from SP3 to SP4 and then run a "zypper dup" on the clients.

This is how I upgraded clients from SP2 to SP3.

Regards

Robert




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From: Daryl Rose
To: "spacewalk-list at redhat.com<mailto:spacewalk-list at redhat.com>"
Date: Mon Oct 05 22:46:47 MESZ 2015
Subject: [Spacewalk-list] Upgrading SLES SP3 to SP4

How is the best way to change a SW repository?



We are in the process of upgrading our SLES servers to SP4.  I registered a few of the SP3 machines to the SW server.  I took one of those registered SP3 machines, deleted it from SW, upgraded it to SP4, then attempted to re-register using the SP4 activation key.  That didn't work so well.  I had to completely clean out all of the rhn and spacewalk packages from the client, re-install from the spacewalk repository.  I basically had to go back through all of the steps in registering a server to get it to register to the SP4 repositories.



Is there an easier way to change the repository?



Thanks



Daryl

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