On 03/15/18 18:23, Robert Paschedag wrote: > Am 14. März 2018 16:25:30 MEZ schrieb Andrei Popenta > <andrei.pope...@visma.com>: >> Hi guys >> >> i'm running spacewalk 2.7 with debian 8, debian 9 and ubuntu 16.04 >> channels. >> >> one problem I am facing is that if apt uses >> only /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spacewalk.list as lists when I run apt >> update >> it shows that 400 packages are available for upgrade. >> If I add the official sources in /etc/apt/sources.list it shows that >> only >> 29 packages are available for upgrade which is true. >> This happens both for debian 9 and ubuntu 16.04. >> Debian 8 is not affected by this. >> >> I know that someone else has faced this issue before, as I noticed 2 >> comments on this article >> http://www.devops-blog.net/spacewalk/registering-ubuntu-and-debian-servers-with-spacewalk >> but couldn't find any solution for it. >> >> Do you know what might cause this ? >> >> I have added Dirk's workaround mentioned >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243387 >> to /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50spacewalk. >> >> thanks, >> Andrei > > Hi, > > in Debian 9, apt got some improvements. These improvements caused me a lot > headache. My problem was, that although I ran apt-get upgrade, all packages > were again upgradable (over and over again) > > This is caused by the "Multi-Arch" header, which is missing in the > packages.gz files generated by SW. > > To compensate this, I'm really using a lot of workarounds. > > First... Use Steve Meiers Script to download all packages and (rhnpush) them > into the database. > > But I modified this script to also extract the "Multi-Arch" header of a > package (if present) and store this information for later usage (name, > version, architecture) > > After the import, I wait several minutes to let SW do its jobs (create the > packages.gz files). > > I then patch these files and add the missing "Multi-Arch" headers to the > packages.gz. > > Before Debian 9, the official repo had only a few packages with "Multi-Arch" > headers. > > In Debian 9, the "main" channel has nearly 9000 packages with these headers. > > Robert >
See here the modified version of Steve Meiers spacewalk-debian-sync.pl script + my spacewalk-add-debian-multiarch-header.py script which adds the missing Multi-Arch headers to the packages.gz https://github.com/rpasche/spacewalk-debian-sync/tree/add-multiarch-header Robert _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list