[Spacewalk-list] old package versions installed during kickstarts

[William H. ten Bensel]

We do this, however it is by design.  Hopefully this will help.

It is accomplished by:

A Kickstart profile is pointed to a "clone-by-date" base channel, updates, 
extras, debuginfo, and spacewalk-client.   This gives us 6.1, 6.2, 6.5, 
6.5r1, 6.5r2, 6.6, kickstarts.
        Systems->kickstart->profiles-> "profile" -> Kickstart details -> 
Operating system
The same Kickstart profile has an activation key that is pointed to the 
updated version base channel, updates, extras, debuginfo, and 
spacewalk-client.
        Systems->kickstart->profiles-> "profile" ->Activation Keys -> 
"activation key" -> Child Channels

So, if the kickstart profile 6.4 is used, the older packages are 
installed.  Then the activation key is applied with the updated channels 
which allows the newer packages to be available but not installed during 
kickstart.  The Admin/application team is then able to determine when the 
best time would be to update the system.

Caution:  If you are cloning the spacewalk-client channel and doing it 
this way  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1280167

- Thanks and good luck



From:   Noah Rømer <baronmog at gmail.com>
To:     spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Date:   03/09/2016 05:02 PM
Subject:        [Spacewalk-list] old package versions installed during 
kickstarts
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We're using Spacewalk 2.2 (on CentOS 6.6 servers) to handle kickstart 
profiles and channels.

If I update a package in one of the channels/yum repositories, after doing 
a spacewalk-repo-sync for the channel, the new version shows up as an 
available update, but the old version is still installed when a new system 
is kickstarted.

Any ideas on what would cause this? There is a http proxy and a spacewalk 
proxy in front of the spacewalk server, but restarting the proxies doesn't 
fix the issue. Often times, the issue will go away after a few days/weeks, 
but I can't connect it to a specific action. That makes me think there's 
some cache somewhere that I haven't yet found.

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