[Spacewalk-list] question between spacewalk centos 4 and 5 clients

[Michiel van Es]

Anyone? :)
Or am I the only one who is finding these yum problems?

Regards,

Michiel

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Subject: [Spacewalk-list] question between spacewalk centos 4 and 5 clients
From: Michiel van Es <michiele at info.nl>
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com <spacewalk-list at redhat.com>
Date: 11/20/2009 02:59 PM

> Hi,
> 
> As most of you know: I got some problems with my CentOS 4 clients.
> If I look closely to the RegisteringClients page 
> (https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/RegisteringClients)
> The I notice that no yum-rhn-plugin is installed on CentOS 4 clients 
> thus yum will never work with the spacewalk repo.
> 
> A CentOS 5 client:
> 
> [root at devdlg01 pluginconf.d]# rpm -qa | grep yum-rhn
> yum-rhn-plugin-0.6.2-1.el5
> 
> 
> A CentOS 4 client:
> [root at stbcmw01 yum]# rpm -qa | grep yum-rhn
> [root at stbcmw01 yum]#
> 
> A yum install of mutt
> 
> CentOS 4:
> [root at stbcmw01 ~]# yum install mutt
> Setting up Install Process
> Setting up repositories
> spacewalk-client-tools    100% |=========================| 1.9 kB 
> 00:00
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> Parsing package install arguments
> No Match for argument: mutt
> Nothing to do
> 
> 
> CentOS5:
> [root at devdlg01 ~]# yum install mutt
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, rhnplugin
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
> Setting up Install Process
> Package 5:mutt-1.4.2.2-3.0.2.el5.i386 already installed and latest version
> Nothing to do
> 
> 
> See the diffirence between the 2?
> How is yum going to find the package if it is never using the 
> up2date/rhn stack?
> 
> That is a big problem for me for the last year, what is the appropiate 
> way to fix this?
> 
> Does anyone with CentOS 4 clients don't have these problems?
> 
> Kind Regards,
> 
> Michiel
> 
> 
> 
> 
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