[Spacewalk-list] Pushing content to the spacewalk server

[Mike McCune]

Anoop Bhat wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm getting this error when trying to push content to the server according to instructions on https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/UploadFedoraContent
> 
>  rhnpush --channel=centos51 --server=http://localhost/APP --dir=CentOS/
> Red Hat Network username: abhat
> Red Hat Network password:
> Internal server error 500 Internal Server Error
> Error pushing /distros/CentOS5/base/CentOS/groff-gxditview-1.18.1.1-11.1.i386.rpm: Error 500Error Message:
>     Package upload failed: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/satellite'
> Error Class Code: 50
> Error Class Info: Invalid information uploaded to the server (500)
> Waiting 2 seconds and trying again...
> Internal server error 500 Internal Server Error
> Error pushing /distros/CentOS5/base/CentOS/groff-gxditview-1.18.1.1-11.1.i386.rpm: Error 500Error Message:
>     Package upload failed: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/satellite'
> Error Class Code: 50
> Error Class Info: Invalid information uploaded to the server (500)
> Waiting 3 seconds and trying again...
> Internal server error 500 Internal Server Error
> Error pushing /distros/CentOS5/base/CentOS/groff-gxditview-1.18.1.1-11.1.i386.rpm: Error 500Error Message:
>     Package upload failed: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/satellite'
> Error Class Code: 50
> Error Class Info: Invalid information uploaded to the server (500)
> Waiting 4 seconds and trying again...
> Giving up after 3 attempts
> #
> 
> /var/satellite doesn't seem to exist. Should I create it or did I miss a step somewhere?
> 

You didn't miss a step.  The above is a bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451721

see the WORKAROUND in the BZ.


> The content was downloaded using reposync to /distros/CentOS5/base/CentOS
> 
> The command for reposync was simply reposync -repoid=base
> 
> The server is a CentOS 5.1 server with spacewalk installed.
> 
> In addition to this, I also have a question because I'm unclear about the reasons for pushing content to a server using rhnpush and then creating a kickstart tree for CentOS.
> 
> Isn't the content being pushed to the server, the kickstart tree as well?

The content is *just* rpms, but the kickstart tree is more than that. 
It is the initrd/boot files, comps and other metadata that make up an 
install tree.  rhnpush doesn't yet know how to deal with these types of 
things.

> 
> Sorry, I'm a complete noob to spacewalk, and centos with very limited experience with RHN.
> 
> Thank you. Great job on Spacewalk by the way. Really looking forward to manage our systems using this.

Thanks!

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