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I have a VM running Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.3 (Maipo) and I am looking for a way to pull the list of all the available version of a package.

Is it possible to get the list of all the available version for kernel-devel package for 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 & 7.4 using a single VM running 7.3?

For example I tried setting release to 7.1 and enabled EUS repo as well but still I see only limited versions of kernel-devel using
"yum --showduplicates list available kernel-devel"

Any help would be really appreciated.

Thanks,
Amit

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MA Active Contributor 294 points
6 January 2018 12:07 AM

How do you know you are seeing only limited versions? How many are you seeing?

yum --showduplicates is the way to see all available versions of a package.

On our satellite server which communicates with Red Hat CDN repositories, your command returns 47 packages. On a satellite client internally, I see the same thing.

AD Community Member 35 points
6 January 2018 4:20 AM

On my VM I have following repos enabled

rhel-7-server-eus-rpms/x86_64                                                    enabled: 11,969
rhel-7-server-rpms/x86_64                                                             enabled: 17,881
rhel-7-server-rt-rpms/x86_64                                                        enabled:    254

Running "yum --showduplicates list kernel-devel" on this VM gives me a list of 63 unique entries (there will be duplicates as same versions exist in different repos). List is provided below.

But when I log into the redhat.com UI and look for list of available kernel-devel packages, I see a lot more. For example 3.10.0-229.49.1.el7, 3.10.0-229.48.1.el7 .... These are missing from list that yum returns.

3.10.0-229.49.1.el7 is available in repo
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 7.1 x86_64    rhel-7-server-eus-rpms

Output of yum --showduplicates -----

3.10.0-123.1.2.el7
3.10.0-123.13.1.el7
3.10.0-123.13.2.el7
3.10.0-123.20.1.el7
3.10.0-123.4.2.el7
3.10.0-123.4.4.el7
3.10.0-123.6.3.el7
3.10.0-123.8.1.el7
3.10.0-123.9.2.el7
3.10.0-123.9.3.el7
3.10.0-123.el7
3.10.0-229.11.1.el7
3.10.0-229.1.2.el7
3.10.0-229.14.1.el7
3.10.0-229.20.1.el7
3.10.0-229.4.2.el7
3.10.0-229.7.2.el7
3.10.0-229.el7
3.10.0-327.10.1.el7
3.10.0-327.13.1.el7
3.10.0-327.18.2.el7
3.10.0-327.22.2.el7
3.10.0-327.28.2.el7
3.10.0-327.28.3.el7
3.10.0-327.3.1.el7
3.10.0-327.36.1.el7
3.10.0-327.36.2.el7
3.10.0-327.36.3.el7
3.10.0-327.41.3.el7
3.10.0-327.41.4.el7
3.10.0-327.44.2.el7
3.10.0-327.4.4.el7
3.10.0-327.4.5.el7
3.10.0-327.46.1.el7
3.10.0-327.49.2.el7
3.10.0-327.53.1.el7
3.10.0-327.55.1.el7
3.10.0-327.55.2.el7
3.10.0-327.55.3.el7
3.10.0-327.58.1.el7
3.10.0-327.59.1.el7
3.10.0-327.59.2.el7
3.10.0-327.59.3.el7
3.10.0-327.61.3.el7
3.10.0-327.62.1.el7
3.10.0-327.el7
3.10.0-514.10.2.el7
3.10.0-514.16.1.el7
3.10.0-514.21.1.el7
3.10.0-514.21.2.el7
3.10.0-514.2.2.el7
3.10.0-514.26.1.el7
3.10.0-514.26.2.el7
3.10.0-514.6.1.el7
3.10.0-514.6.2.el7
3.10.0-514.el7
3.10.0-693.11.1.el7
3.10.0-693.11.6.el7
3.10.0-693.1.1.el7
3.10.0-693.2.1.el7
3.10.0-693.2.2.el7
3.10.0-693.5.2.el7
3.10.0-693.el7
Thomas Jones's picture Guru Community Member 3711 points
6 January 2018 2:13 AM

If --showduplicates isn't showing the expected or known-correct number of versions, it's usually indicative that your repo/channel doesn't contain all of the packages. In some cases, you might get your expected list by adding --enablerepo=*, but - it's no guarantee it will do so and, depending on your client's configuration, may result in lots of error messages.

AD Community Member 35 points
6 January 2018 4:43 AM

On my VM I have following repos enabled

rhel-7-server-eus-rpms/x86_64                                                    enabled: 11,969
rhel-7-server-rpms/x86_64                                                             enabled: 17,881
rhel-7-server-rt-rpms/x86_64                                                        enabled:    254

Release is set to 7.1

[xxx@localhost ~]$ sudo subscription-manager release --show
Release: 7.1

I don't see lot of kernel-devel package versions that are included in "rhel-7-server-eus-rpms" repo. I can see these on redhat.com but not using via yum

3.10.0-229.49.1.el7 (lot of others) is available in repo
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 7.1 x86_64    rhel-7-server-eus-rpms

Not sure if I am missing something

AD Community Member 35 points
6 January 2018 12:53 PM

Seems I found the issue. After setting the release I wasn't cleaning up yum cache. Executing "yum clean all" after release set, seems to have solved the issue.

Thanks for all your help.

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