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Debian/Ubuntu Support in Spacewalk 2.7

Significant improvements to Debian/Ubuntu version parsing and matching were made in the Spacewalk 2.7 release. The majority of the changes were done in Spacewalk server. However, there is a change that must be applied to client systems as well. When upgrading from a previous Spacewalk release to Spacewalk 2.7, it is also required that all Debian/Ubuntu channels be cleaned and synced again to import the right versions

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Required Client Update

The client needs to be fixed also to report an X instead of a 0 as release if it is empty.

The file /usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/debUtils.py needs the following change:

-- a/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/debUtils.py
+++ b/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/debUtils.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ def verifyPackages(packages):
 
 def parseVRE(version):
     epoch = ''
-    release = '0'
+    release = 'X'
     if version.find(':') != -1:
         epoch, version = version.split(':')
     if version.find('-') != -1:

Clean, Then Sync Channels After Upgrading To Spacewalk 2.7

Spacewalk 2.7 changes the parsing to handle the debian package version components according to definitions from here. After an update to Spacewalk 2.7 the existing Debian/Ubuntu channels must be cleaned and synced again to import the right versions.

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