[Spacewalk-list] more kickstart blues

[Zac Elston]

On Jul 24, 2008, at 11:52 PM, Justin Sherrill wrote:

>
> It looks like you've gotten to the point where your kickstarts  
> should be working.  The error saying your channel is missing  
> packages is normal (since you aren't using a base red hat channel),  
> and some things in the generated %post may fail, but the kickstart  
> should succeed as a whole.  Are you able to kickstart?
>
> -Justin



sorry for the delay, I was out on holiday.


while I can now get tree's made based on distributions, I'm unable to  
kickstart following the documentation on the spacewalk wiki.
the workflow is :

1:   select system
2:  select manage:
3:   select kickstart
4: select the distribution and profile, click schedule
5:  "Could not find the needed RHN provisioning packages given this  
system's current base channel and desired target channel."

the target system is centos5.2, subscribed to the same channel  
(parent-no children)

I get a similar message when trying to use Virtualization

1:   click system
2:  click "Virtualization"
3:  click "provisioning"
4:  fillin guest details, click "schedule kickstart and finish"
5:  "Could not find the needed Spacewalk provisioning packages given  
this system's current base channel and desired target channel:  
centos-5-2"

target has Entitlements:
[Virtualization Platform] [Provisioning] [Management]

thanks again for the assistance.  I'm wondering since i'm following  
the documentation on 2 systems, has anyone followed it got it  
working?  if so then i'm just not paying attention to something  
obvious (very possible)


this fails for rhel and centos channels and trees copied from the dvds

-zaq