[Spacewalk-list] CentOS 5.4 64 bit and spacewalk client tools

[Flaherty, Patrick]

> We're installing the spacewalk client tools on a new CentOS 
> 5.4 64 bit machine but got the following error:
> 
> # yum install yum-rhn-plugin
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile Setting up Install 
> Process No package cat available.
> No package /etc/issue available.
> Resolving Dependencies
> - --> Running transaction check
> - ---> Package yum-rhn-plugin.noarch 0:0.5.3-6.el5.6 set to be updated
> - --> Processing Dependency: rhn-client-tools >= 0.2.3 for package:
> yum-rhn-plugin
> - --> Processing Dependency: rhn-setup for package: yum-rhn-plugin
> - --> Running transaction check
> - ---> Package rhn-client-tools.noarch 0:0.4.17-8.el5 set to 
> be updated
> - --> Processing Dependency: rhnlib >= 2.1 for package: 
> rhn-client-tools
> - ---> Package rhn-setup.noarch 0:0.4.17-8.el5 set to be updated
> - --> Processing Dependency: rhnsd for package: rhn-setup
> - --> Running transaction check
> - ---> Package rhnlib.noarch 0:2.2.5-1.el5 set to be updated
> - ---> Package rhnsd.x86_64 0:4.6.1-1.el5 set to be updated
> - --> Processing Dependency: rhn-check >= 0.0.8 for package: rhnsd
> - --> Running transaction check
> - ---> Package rhn-check.noarch 0:0.4.17-8.el5 set to be updated
> - --> Processing Conflict: yum conflicts yum-rhn-plugin < 0.5.3-30.el5
> - --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> yum-3.2.22-20.el5.centos.noarch from installed has depsolving problems
>   --> yum conflicts with yum-rhn-plugin
> Error: yum conflicts with yum-rhn-plugin  You could try using 
> --skip-broken to work around the problem  You could try 
> running: package-cleanup --problems
>                         package-cleanup --dupes
>                         rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest The 
> program package-cleanup is found in the yum-utils package.
> 
> 
> It seems that the recent yum in CentOS 5.4 64 bit is not 
> cooperating/willing to work with the yum-rhn-plugin provided 
> by the Spacewalk team.
> 
> How can we solve this dependency problem?

I'm seeing the same issue on 32 and 64 bit CentOS boxes when I try to
upgrade them from 5.3 to 5.4. The client tools repositories on the
listed on the setup page for centos5 haven't been updated since 2008.
The instructions for fedora point at http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/0.5
or http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/0.6/. Perhaps those packages will
work? I'll likely try them tomorrow if I have enough time.

Patrick