Spacewalk Enterprise: User Reference Guide 2.0
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Choosing Packages to Update

After clicking Next, the dialog box in Figure 4-4 will appear. This means that a connection to Spacewalk is being established and that your customized list of updates is being retrieved. This might take some time, depending on the speed of your connection and the number of packages you have installed.

While you see this dialog box, the Red Hat Update Agent uses your unique Digital Certificate (/etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid) to determine if there are any updated packages available for your system. If there are no updated packages available for your system, the dialog box in Figure 4-5 appears. Click OK to exit the Red Hat Update Agent.

If your system is not up-to-date, your customized list of available updated packages is displayed as shown in Figure 4-6.

By default, no packages are selected for download. If you highlight each package, a brief package description is displayed in the Package Information section at the bottom of the screen. To select the package for download (and installation if you chose that option), click the checkbox. To select all the packages listed, click the button next to Select all packages.

If you want to view the advisory for the RPM Alert, click the View Advisory button. This will display what type of Errata Alert it is and what problem(s) it addresses as shown in Figure 4-7. Click Next when you are finished selecting packages.

After choosing which packages to update, the Red Hat Update Agent tests for RPM dependencies and prompts you if you have chosen to omit packages that are required for software updates that you did choose. The dialog box in Figure 4-8 is shown while it is testing for dependencies. This process might take some time depending upon how many packages are are updating.

The Red Hat Update Agent shows the progress of each package retrieval as shown in Figure 4-9. When they have all been retrieved, the message All finished is displayed at the bottom of the screen. Click Next to continue.

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