[Spacewalk-list] Registering a CentOS5 client

[Pradeep Kilambi]

Anoop:

point your client to rhel repo on spacewalk:

http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/rhel/5Server/i386/

We made rhnlib available in that repo.

lemme know,

~ Prad


Anoop Bhat wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think I've got a different issue registering a centos5 client.
>
> Actually, it's related to installing the required tools for registration.
>
> I followed the instructions at https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/RegisteringClients
>
> But the only result of that was
>
> # yum install rhn-client-tools rhn-check rhn-setup rhnsd m2crypto yum-rhn-plugin
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Setting up Install Process
> Setting up repositories
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> Parsing package install arguments
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Package yum-rhn-plugin.noarch 0:0.5.3-6.el5_2.6 set to be updated
> ---> Package rhn-setup.noarch 0:0.4.17-10.fc9 set to be updated
> ---> Package rhn-client-tools.noarch 0:0.4.17-10.fc9 set to be updated
> ---> Package rhn-check.noarch 0:0.4.17-10.fc9 set to be updated
> ---> Package rhnsd.i386 0:4.6.1-1.el5 set to be updated
> ---> Package m2crypto.i386 0:0.16-6.el5.2 set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: rhnlib >= 2.1 for package: rhn-client-tools
> --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Package rhnlib.noarch 0:2.2.5-3.fc9 set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: python(abi) = 2.5 for package: rhnlib
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Missing Dependency: python(abi) = 2.5 is needed by package rhnlib
>
> Of course, I realized that I was pointing to a fedora repo so that was my mistake but now I'm wondering where I can get the packages for rhel/centos. I don't have a rhn subscription anymore.
>
> On the CentOS5.1 release notes, it states that
>
> # redhat-release-5Client
> # redhat-release-5Server
> # redhat-release-notes-5Client
> # redhat-release-notes-5Server
> # rhel-instnum
> # rhn-check
> # rhn-client-tools
> # rhnlib
> # rhnsd
> # rhn-setup
> # rhn-setup-gnome
>
> Were removed from CentOS and included upstream. I'm not sure what that means exactly.
>
> Can someone clarify this for me? I'd appreciate it greatly.
>
> Thanks
>
> Anoop
>
>
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