[Spacewalk-list] problems with syncing repositories and sw clients

[Kirill Morozov]

Hello,

we have Spacewalk server 0.5 installed on x86_64 xen guest CentOS 5.3  
with all latest updates.

(root at sw)-(07:43 AM Tue Apr 14)-(~)
# uname -a
Linux sw.fedora.xxx 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5.centos.plusxen #1 SMP Thu Apr 2  
13:32:02 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux


First problem
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I'm trying to sync i386 "base" repo for centos 5.3 and cannot find a  
lot of packages(about 50%), for example "vixie-cron" or "PyXML"

(root at sw)-(07:43 AM Tue Apr 14)-(~)
# reposync --arch=i386 --repoid=base -p /var/www/html/pub/CentOS5- 
i386  -l|grep cron
[base: 210   of 1186  ] Skipping existing CentOS/ 
crontabs-1.10-8.noarch.rpm

but i can see it on remote CentOS base repo(it have 2508 packages).

NOTE: With x86_64 repo i have NO problems.

So, why reposync cannot see about 50% of packages?


Second problem
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I have download and add these packages manually without reposync, push  
it to channel.
I see it in the spacewalk web-interface, but one i386 client can see it:

# yum search vixie-cron
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, rhnplugin
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
centos5-extras- 
i386 
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   871 B     00:00
centos5-updates- 
i386 
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   871 B     00:00
centos5-base- 
i386 
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   871 B     00:00
spacewalk-client-tools- 
i386 
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   871 B     00:00
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Matched: vixie-cron  
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vixie-cron.i386 : The Vixie cron daemon for executing specified  
programs at set times.

but another one cannot see:

# yum search vixie-cron
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, rhnplugin
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
centos5-updates- 
i386 
                                                                                                                                                      | 
   871 B     00:00
centos5-base- 
i386 
                                                                                                                                                         | 
   871 B     00:00
centos5-extras- 
i386 
                                                                                                                                                       | 
   871 B     00:00
Warning: No matches found for: vixie-cron
No Matches found

I think this problem on the client side, but i cannot find it.

When i have enabled standart repositories "vixie-cron" is found.

Third problem
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When i'm trying to clean yum cache on this client, i got:

# yum clean all
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, rhnplugin
Cleaning up Everything
Error: Error making cache directory: //var/cache/yum/timedhosts.txt  
error was: [Errno 17] File exists: '//var/cache/yum/timedhosts.txt'


Thanks.

-- 
Kirill Morozov
KIMO2-RIPE, RHCE