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<div>Centos 5.6 x86_64 hosting a Spacwalk 1.3 Oracle XE environment.</div>
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<div>I've built a parent channel for Centos 5 with 3 child channels.</div>
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<div>1.) Centos 5 updates</div>
<div>2.) Spacewalk clients</div>
<div>3.) EPEL (needed for python-ethtool for spacewalk registration)</div>
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<div>My kickstart profile is for a test VM, it should build a simple VM install the spacewalk client tools from the spacewalk client child repos and the python-ethtool package from the EPEL child repo to allow the server to register its self with the spacewalk
server.</div>
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<div>A kind user on the #spacewalk IRC explained I needed the EPEL repo for python-ethtool as without this the client can't register with the spacewalk server.</div>
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<div>I've added the EPEL repo and told the kickstart profile to install python-ethtool</div>
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<div>When the kickstart build starts, it goes throught he basics, boots, lays out the file system and then starts working out the packages, it complains that I have specific a package "python-ethtool" that doesn't not exist abort continue (see screen shot
1)</div>
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<div>However....</div>
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<div>the EPEL repo does contain the python-ethtool package, and if I hit the download button on it, it does download the package. (see screen shot 2)</div>
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<div>If I check the kickstart backgroun tty's I also see the epel repo being added fine (see screen shot 3)</div>
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<div>I've attatched the kickstart file to show how the build should work,</div>
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<div>I have no idea why this package is not showing up as available and would appreciate any suggestions.</div>
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<div>The EPEL repo has been synced down from <a href="http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/fedora/epel/5/x86_64/">
http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/fedora/epel/5/x86_64/</a> and does not complain of errors.</div>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
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<div>Matt</div>
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