On May 29, 2012, at 3:23 AM, Michael Mraka wrote: > Franky Van Liedekerke wrote: > % On Mon, 28 May 2012 14:13:04 +0000 > % "Velayutham, Prakash" <[email protected]> wrote: > % > % > Hi, > % > > % > I just noticed that the update list for one of the clients (I am sure > % > there are other clients with this issue too) is different when I > % > check using "yum check-update" on the client compared to what the > % > Spacewalk server shows. Is this expected? > % > > % > Spacewalk version - 1.6 > % > % I noticed it too, even with 1.7: it seems that "yum update" (or > % check-update) also lists packages that will replace other packages, > % while spacewalk just seems to update to the newest version of each of > % the installed packages, plus dependancies. > > Another reason for this behavior could be use of yum plugins > which modify list of packages - e.g. priorities, protect-packages, > protectbase, versionlock etc. > > Spacewalk has no idea what's filtered out locally on the client. > > Regards, > > -- > Michael Mráka > Satellite Engineering, Red Hat >
The other question is, after I schedule an update for a client from the Spacewalk server, when it runs on the client, does it update all the packages that were selected from the Spacewalk server, or just what "yum check-update" returns (which might be a subset)? Thanks, Prakash _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
