Description of problem: It would be useful if the channel.software.listAllPackages XMLRPC call would also expose the package's md5sum (aside from NEVRA and last_modified). This would help identify potential packages with the different content, but same NEVRA, in two different channels. When NEVRAs were guaranteed to be unique within an org_id (I believe there used to be a unique constraint on name_id, evr_id, package_arch_id, org_id on rhnPackage), you could get away with comparing the org_id of the channels. Without this, one would have to iterate over each package and individually fetch the rest of the info, and it's too expensive.
About to release Space08, moving to 09 for now.
Mihai. All patches welcome! :)
Patch submitted via spacewalk-devel mailing list
Thanks to Colin Coe for the patch! spacewalk.git: 1822a606bdf6072e29af4b08b9e8ca7b4e6415cb updated API doc: f4da592071efc56e040ec32e148f401494a60255
This bug has been fixed in Spacewalk 1.0. Closing.
*** Bug 580124 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***