Problem: Content host shows installable updates (package updates) that are already installed and running
Expected outcome: All packages installed and Installable updates = 0
Foreman and Proxy versions: Foreman 2.1.2 With Katello 3.16
Foreman and Proxy plugin versions: 2.1.2
Distribution and version: Centos 8.2.2004
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Hi everyone im currently testing Foreman with Katello as a replacement for our Spacewalk installation.
And i ran into this issue when patching a CentOS 8.2 server.
Before patching the server showed 300ish installable updates, after patching and reboot there is still 3 Installable updates:
kernel, kernel-core and kernel-modules
When i check the server that kernel version is running and dnf update shows no availabe patches.
Anyone got any idea why katello still shows those packages as updates when they are running on the server?
I was hoping to reach out to you before something like this happened. I was curious to see, when looking at the installed packages for you Content Host in Katello itself, which versions of the above packages were installed. The goal would have been to see if Katello knew that the new packages were on your client host. If not, that would have explained the behavior. Although, after any dnf action which modifies the packages on the host, the data should get updated in Katello. What fixed it was likely the periodic (every 4 hours by default) checkin that happens from all registered Content Hosts.
Let me know if you see it on any of your other hosts, and check on what I mentioned above if you can.
So Katello knows that the packages are installed and still marks them as upgrades.
Is there a way on the content host to do a manual checkin like the old rhn_check command?
To see if it was the scheduled checkin that updated the upgradable package list.
The second server i installed still have 3 available package updates after the patching last night.
So the automatic checkin did not update the installable update list.
