[Spacewalk-list] repo error

[Michael Mraka]

Edward Peirce wrote:
% Hello,
%    I recently setup a spacewalk installation, 0.8.17-1.e15, and setup my first channel with a problem. I also have a number of Xenserver VMs and wanted to setup a channel to the Citrix Xensource repo but when I run the following command to sync the repo it throws an exception:
% 
% Command:
% 
% /usr/bin/spacewalk-repo-sync --channel citrix --url http://updates.xensource.com/XenServer/5.5.0/centos5x/ --type yum --label citrix
...
%   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/UserDict.py", line 17, in __getitem__
%     def __getitem__(self, key): return self.data[key]
% KeyError: 'sigmd5'
% 
% Any help would be greatly appreciated!

It looks similar to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=571413.

There is a fix in nightly repo.
As a workaround in Spacewalk 0.8 you could download and import binary
packages only.
 
Regards,

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Michael Mráka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat