> > I suspect this has probably been covered in a previous post, but I > > couldn’t seem to find it with a quick search. This is something > > recent that has cropped up. I have clients for which Spacewalk shows > > updated to be installed… but the hosts cannot see them. I’ve tried > > clearing the yum cache and the repodata on the Spacewalk server shows > > that it has been rebuilt this morning… and I see the packages in > > question in the packages directory on the Spacewalk server. > > > > > > > > But… when I try to schedule the updates via Spacewalk… or manually > > install them using yum on the client… they aren’t available. > > I've had this where taskomatic hasn't run to rebuild the yum metadata. > Restarting taskomatic seems to fix it. > > Also, yum does cache its metadata for a set period before downloading it > again. I've found that I have to frequently do a "yum clean all" before I > deploy new packages to clients, particularly for my custom channels.
Aye... it must have been something strange with taskomatic. I for certain did the usual 'yum clean all' ... and I looked at the channel in question and the metadata seemed new'ish... Thanks for the insight. Andy _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
