[Spacewalk-list] Packages "missing" during Kickstart that aren't...

[Jonathan Scott]

James,

Its during the initial install attempt.


On 08/09/2010, James Hogarth <james.hogarth at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9 August 2010 13:45, Jonathan Scott <lists at xistenz.org> wrote:
>> I've had a sudden issue pop up with my 32bit kickstart template that's
>> been
>> working fine for months.  Any time we attempt to use it, we are met with
>> an
>> error about a missing package (fetchmail-6.3.6-1.1.el5_3.1.i386.rpm to be
>> exact).  This package not only exists in multiple channels attached to the
>> kickstart, I can manually download it via the same URL it dumps to the
>> console.
>>
>> I've restarted spacewalk, deleted all of my /var/cache/rhn/repodata files
>> and allowed taskomatic to rebuild them, I can't seem to wrap my head
>> around
>> this one.  Anyone have any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jonathan
>>
>
> What stage of kickstart? The initial install of packages or during
> spacewalk registration (post scripts)?
>
> I have in the past forgotten that the activation key overrides the
> channel selection in kickstart once the system is registered leading
> to much confusion on a new activation key when I've forgotten to add
> the appropriate channels ;)
>
> James
>
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