[Spacewalk-list] Problems with 32 and 64bit CentOS

[Justin Sherrill]

John Hodrien wrote:
> So I tried to install 0.2 to see if NEVRA was sorted.  My hope was
> that this
> would mean I could push 32/64bit versions of Fedora 9 and CentOS 5
> into the
> same spacewalk with no funny tricks necessary.
>
> I created channels for 64bit and 32bit CentOS.
>
> I pushed the 64bit content first (which all went on fine).
>
> I then pushed the 32bit content, and it refuses to push any package that
> matches with 64bit, e.g.
>
> Package checksum
> /usr/not-backed-up/spacewalk/yum-mirrors/32bit/updates/RPMS/xen-libs-3.0.3-64.el5_2.1.i386.rpm
>
> mismatch -- Skipping Upload (use --force to force upload)
>
> I thought initially it was because I'd got the wrong rhnpush installed
> (since
> it's lower versioned than the SW 0.1 rhnpush so it didn't
> automatically get
> upgraded), but even with the right rhnpush and a clean spacewalk I'm
> getting
> the same problem.
>
> Using --force proved entertaining, but not quite right.  The package
> is pushed
> and appears in the filesystem.  In the web interface it's very odd. 
> Both 32
> and 64 bit channels show the md5sum from the 64bit package, but if you
> look
> for the packages you get the other package listed too, but not against a
> channel.
>
> Should I be expecting this to work or not?
>
> jh
>
looking into this...