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page, then click the Confirm button. After confirming, the action is added to the Pending Actions
list under
Schedule
. Errata that have been scheduled cannot be selected for update. In the place of
a checkbox, you will find a clock icon that, when clicked, takes you to the Action Details page.
To help users determine whether an update has been scheduled, a Status column exists within the
Errata table. Possible values are: None, Pending, Picked Up, Completed, and Failed. This column
identifies only the latest action related to an Errata. For instance, if an action fails and you resched-
ule it, this column will show the status of the Errata as Pending only (with no mention of the
previous failure). Clicking a status other than None takes you to the
Action Details
page. This
column corresponds to one on the Affected Systems tab of the Errata Details page.
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Packages
— Manages the packages on the system.
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Packages — The default display of the Packages tab describes the options available to you and
provides the means to update your package list. If after exploring the packages, you believe the
list is outdated or incomplete (or you installed the packages manually and did not have RHN
install them), click the
Update Package List
button on the bottom right-hand corner of this
page. The next time the RHN Daemon connects to RHN, it will update your System Profile with
the latest list of installed packages.
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List/Remove — Lists installed packages from the system’s software System Profile and enables
you to remove them. Click on a package name to view its
Package Details
page. (Refer to Section
4.6.5.3 Package Details .) To delete packages from the system, select their checkboxes and click
the
Remove Packages
button on the bottom right-hand corner of the page. A confirmation page
will appear with the packages listed. Click the Confirm button to remove the packages.
Note
If you are using
up2date
version 3.1 or higher, any dependency-related errors generated by the
attempted package removal are displayed on the page.
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Upgrade
— Displays a list of packages that have a new version available based on the package
versions in the channel for the system. Click on the latest package name to view its Package
Details
page. To upgrade packages immediately, select them and click the
Upgrade Packages
button. You then have the option to run a remote command with the package action, if allowed
on the system. Refer to the
Remote Command
subtab description for details. Refer to the de-
scription of the Configuration subtab of the Channels tab for instructions on allowing remote
commands. To download the packages as .tar files, select them and click the
Download Packages
button. Refer to Section 4.6.5.2 Package Download for details.
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Install — Enables you to install new packages on the system from the available channels. Click
on the package name to view its
Package Details
page. To install packages, select them and click
the
Install Selected Packages
button. You then have the option to run a remote command with
the package action, if allowed on the system. Refer to the Remote Command subtab descrip-
tion for details. Refer to the description of the
Configuration
subtab of the
Channels
tab for
instructions on allowing remote commands.
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Profiles — Gives you the ability to compare the packages on this system with the packages of
stored profiles and other Management and Provisioning systems. To make the comparison with
a stored profile, select that profile from the pulldown menu and click the Compare button. To
make the comparison with another system, select it from the associated pulldown menu and click
the Compare button. To create a stored profile based upon the existing system, click the Create
System Profile
button, enter any additional information you desire, and click the
Create Profile
button. These profiles are kept within the Stored Profiles page linked from the left navigation
bar.
Once package profiles have been compared, Provisioning customers have the ability to synchro-
nize the packages of the selected system with the package manifest of the compared profile. Note
that this action may delete packages on the system not in the profile, as well as install packages