Description of problem: When using apt-transport-spacewalk on both debian and ubuntu, apt-transport-spacewalk always tries to install packages that are already installed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):1.0.8 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. install apt-transport-spacewalk on debian or ubuntu 2. register to a spacewalk server 3. install a package from the spacewalk server 4. run apt-get upgrade Actual results: root@ms:~# apt-get -V upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be upgraded: apt-transport-spacewalk (1.0.8-2 => 1.0.8-2) python-rhn (2.5.55-2 => 2.5.55-2) rhn-client-tools (1.9.10-2 => 1.9.10-2) rhnsd (4.9.15-2 => 4.9.15-2) 5 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/664 kB of archives. After this operation, 676 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n Expected results: apt-get should not try to install a package that is already installed. Additional info:
I did the same procedure (Spacewalk 2.1 nightly) as in the opening comment with the following results: $ apt-get -V upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. I'm going to close this report with worksforme. Please reopen with an explaining comment if you disagree or if this is still happening for you.
This BZ closed some time during 2.5, 2.6 or 2.7. Adding to 2.7 tracking bug.