[Spacewalk-list] System installed packages auditing

[Bruncko Michal]

ok, please ignore this thread. seem I should firstly look twice before 
ask. such requested functionality is a part of "provisioning" (section 
of system properties) -> snapshots -> packages.

thanks


On 2016-06-06 13:21, Bruncko Michal wrote:
> ok,seem there is pretty nice yum transactions auditing with using "yum
> history" and downgrade possibility with "yum downgrade". but anyway is
> there option to see system packages auditing in Spacewalk?
> 
> thanks
> 
> michal
> 
> On 2016-06-06 11:25, Bruncko Michal wrote:
>> hello list
>> 
>> I use spacewalk server (2.4) as repository for package installation
>> and deployment for couple of systems. sometimes I am using webgui
>> based package deployment, sometimes I use yum form CLI. Recently new
>> centos 6.8 has been released and I used yum on specific system to get
>> it upgraded to 6.8 (~170 packages getting upgraded). installation was
>> completed successfully but then I realized that some
>> application-related-service stopped working properly and based on
>> error message (httpd - child pid XXX exit signal Illegal instruction)
>> I decided to not fight with fixing (as this was looking like
>> library/instruction/whatever issue rather than configuration) and
>> wanted to downgrade some specific packages. So I decided to start
>> downgrading httpd packages and now the point why I am writing here in
>> this list: I was not able simply to find out the name of original
>> httpd package name-version installed on affected system from before
>> the upgrade that I wanted to use again. Yes, from /var/log/yum.log I
>> can see the latest package name-version and time when update happen.
>> But I was not able to find previous package version nowhere. Thanks to
>> other not-yet-upgraded systems I retrieved package name-version from
>> them and use it for downgrading on affected system.
>> 
>> questions:
>> 
>> 1. provides spacewalk any functionality regards to list of packages
>> installed per system with focus historical view? i.e. to see not only
>> the latest installed packages, but also older packages. I.e. I am
>> looking for installed packages auditing tool (what packages were
>> changed and when).
>> 
>> 2. what way did you use if you decide to downgrade some package on
>> system? my steps are following:
>>  --> identify which package has to be downgraded (in case of some 
>> issue)
>>  --> download that package from public repository
>>  --> and manual installation using "rpm --ivhU --nodeps --force 
>> packagename"
>> yes, looks like dirty way, but if somebody can give me better option I
>> would very likely to use instead of this one.
>> 
>> thanks and cheers
>> 
>> michal
>> 
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