[Spacewalk-list] old package versions installed duringkickstarts

Wed Mar 16 23:27:20 UTC 2016

Perhaps I'm missing a step in the process:

1) Build a new version of an rpm (using koji)
2) Sign the package (using sigul)
3) Run mash on the rpm repo  server
4) Run `spacewalk-repo-sync --channel [channel name]` for the channel that
uses the repo in question

The above causes existing systems to get the new version via `yum upgrade`
or pushing an update using the spacewalk webui, but the new versions of the
packages don't get installed during kickstarts until some seemingly random
time later (I haven't figured out what causes spacewalk to start handing
out newer package versions).

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 9:49 AM, Noah Rømer <baronmog at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, I tried using the "Always use the newest Tree for this base channel"
> setting a week or so back, with the existing channels/repos. It did cause
> the outstanding package updates at the time to get used during kickstart.
> Subsequent updates did not picked up for kickstart, though.
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 8:29 AM, William H. ten Bensel <WHTENBEN at up.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Could it be that a new distribution needs to be created and the kickstart
>> profile should have "Always use the newest Tree for this base channel"
>>
>> - Thanks and good luck
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> From:        Noah Rømer <baronmog at gmail.com>
>> To:        spacewalk-list at redhat.com
>> Date:        03/11/2016 11:41 AM
>> Subject:        Re: [Spacewalk-list] old package versions installed
>> during        kickstarts
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>> We just have the one kickstart profile, with activation keys for a group
>> of repositories including upstream Cetnos and a repository for our internal
>> code.
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 6:41 AM, William H. ten Bensel <*WHTENBEN at up.com*
>> <WHTENBEN at up.com>> wrote:
>> 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*
>> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1280167>
>>
>> - Thanks and good luck
>>
>>
>>
>> From:        Noah Rømer <*baronmog at gmail.com* <baronmog at gmail.com>>
>> To:        *spacewalk-list at redhat.com* <spacewalk-list at redhat.com>
>> Date:        03/09/2016 05:02 PM
>> Subject:        [Spacewalk-list] old package versions installed during
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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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