Hello,
I have registered an SLES11SP1 server with my spacewalk server however when I perform a 'yum repolist', I do not see my spacewalk server as one of the available repositories. So when I perform yum update (any-package), it does not find an update available. HOwever within the Spacewalk GUI it can see that 23 packages have updates available. Can anyone shed some light on this?
Thanks,
Shaun
you need to have the satellite package from red hat with an active certificate to be able to use the spacewalk server to update your software (red hat) products ...
otherwise, find out what repo server spacewalk is looking at and try to add it to the repo list of your other servers ...
Thanks but that is not the problem. I already have CentOS servers registered and they are able to pull their updates from the Spacewalk server. I need to know why when I register a client to the spacewalk server, the client does not add the spacewalk server to the repolist.. see example below from a centOS server and the example from an SLES server.. Both servers are registered with the Spacewalk server however the SLES server does not show the spacewalk server as a possible repo.
[root@xxxxxdev01 ~]# yum repolist
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security
This system is receiving updates from RHN Classic or RHN Satellite.
repo id repo name status
cfg2html cfg2html 1
dell-om-platform_independent-oel5-x86_64 Dell OM on platform_independent for OEL5-x86_64 2,720
oel5u9x86_64 Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 update 9 3,372
puppet_rh5 Puppet for Enterprise Linux 5 32
spacewalk-client Spacewalk client 21
xtra Xtra 8
repolist: 13,380
SLES:
xxxxxdev01:/etc/yum/repos.d # yum repolist
repo id repo name status
suse11_1_extra Suse Linux $releasever - x86_64 - extra enabled: 10
suse11_1_pool Suse Linux $releasever - x86_64 - pool enabled: 2581
suse11_1_updates Suse Linux $releasever - x86_64 - updates enabled: 4382
repolist: 6973
there is currently only limited support for everything else other than red hat and centos ... see here ...