[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk and Ubuntu version handling

[Robert Paschedag]

Am 15. September 2017 21:46:56 MESZ schrieb Paul-Andre Panon <paul-andre.panon at avigilon.com>:
>We switched to Spacewalk 2.7 late last week to see how things are
>working out with Ubuntu and the PR500 changes. It does seem to have
>improved a lot but we're still seeing some issues. We have some systems
>where Spacewalk appears to recommend upgrading to packages that are
>actually a downgrade.
>
>Latest Package                                                         
>                                                      Installed Package
>compiz-0.9.11+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1:1.all-deb                        
>                      compiz-0.9.11.3+14.04.20160425-0ubuntu1:1.all-deb
>compiz-core-0.9.11+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1:1.amd64-deb                 
>             compiz-core-0.9.11.3+14.04.20160425-0ubuntu1:1.amd64-deb
>compiz-gnome-0.9.11+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1:1.amd64-deb                
>        compiz-gnome-0.9.11.3+14.04.20160425-0ubuntu1:1.amd64-deb
>compiz-plugins-default-0.9.11+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1:1.amd64-deb      
>  compiz-plugins-default-0.9.11.3+14.04.20160425-0ubuntu1:1.amd64-deb
>gcc-4.9-base-4.9-20140406-0ubuntu1.amd64-deb                           
>                         gcc-4.9-base-4.9.3-0ubuntu4.amd64-deb
>libcompizconfig0-0.9.11+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1:1.amd64-deb            
>         libcompizconfig0-0.9.11.3+14.04.20160425-0ubuntu1:1.amd64-deb
>libdecoration0-0.9.11+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1:1.amd64-deb              
>            libdecoration0-0.9.11.3+14.04.20160425-0ubuntu1:1.amd64-deb
>libgcc1-4.9-20140406-0ubuntu1:1.amd64-deb                              
>                               libgcc1-4.9.3-0ubuntu4:1.amd64-deb
>
>If we select them by accident, the client notices that the packages are
>a downgrade and refuses to install them. However it does mean that we
>have systems being reported as having a number of outstanding patches
>when they are actually up to date.
>
>Paul-Andre Panon
>Senior systems administrator
>
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>
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Did you "fully" remove all packages from spacewalk and synced them again before you tried that?

Robert