[Spacewalk-list] update required to Spacewalk 0.5 and cobbler 1.6

[Mike McCune]

Mike McCune wrote:
> If you are using Spacewalk 0.5 and have Cobbler 1.6 installed you have 
> or soon will notice you can't create new kickstart profiles.  The main 
> problem is the GUI will error out when trying to complete the step to 
> create the profile.
> 
> In order to fix this you should 'yum update' from the Spacewalk 
> repository.  You should see a series of new spacewalk* and rhn* packages 
> updated on your machine.
> 
> The second half of this provisioning related fix is requiring the latest 
> from cobbler's source repository.  You have a few options on how to get 
> this fix:
> 
> 1) Patch manually:
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/cyvkyg
> 
> 2) Grab srpm from here:
> 
> http://people.fedoraproject.org/~mmccune/rpms/cobbler-1.6.3-1.src.rpm
> 
> * rpmbuild -bb cobbler-1.6.3-1.src.rpm
> * Install newly built RPM
> 
> 3) Wait for 1.6.3's release later this week.
> 

Just to update everyone, cobbler 1.6.3 became final last Friday:

https://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/cobbler/2009-April/003856.html

the binary RPMs are available in the EPEL testing yum repository.

Mike
-- 
Mike McCune
mmccune AT redhat.com
Engineering               | Portland, OR
RHN Satellite             | 650.567.9039x79248