[Spacewalk-list] Upgrade to 0.8 spacewalk-repo-syn problems

[rob morrien]

>
> hello to all
>
> i upgraded from 07 to 08 and try to do a spacewalk-repo-sync on the
> command line but i get the erros below, who can help me?
>
> [root at mirr reposync]# /usr/bin/spacewalk-repo-sync --channel
> spacewalk-client-08 --url
> http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/0.8-client/RHEL/5/i386/ --type yum --label
> spacewalk-client-08
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/spacewalk-repo-sync", line 72, in ?
>     sys.exit(abs(main() or 0))
>   File "/usr/bin/spacewalk-repo-sync", line 66, in main
>     sync.main()
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/satellite_tools/reposync.py", line 95, in main
>     self.import_packages(self.plugin.list_packages())
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/satellite_tools/repo_plugins/yum_src.py", line 47,
> in list_packages
>     sack.populate(repo, 'metadata', None, 0)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 168, in
> populate
>     if self._check_db_version(repo, mydbtype):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 226, in
> _check_db_version
>     return repo._check_db_version(mdtype)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1229, in
> _check_db_version
>     repoXML = self.repoXML
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1392, in
> <lambda>
>     repoXML = property(fget=lambda self: self._getRepoXML(),
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1388, in
> _getRepoXML
>     raise Errors.RepoError, msg
> yum.Errors.RepoError: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for
> repository: spacewalk-client-08-spacewalk-client-08. Please verify its
> path and try again
>
> regards rob


solution:

the problem was that i am working behind a proxy.

setting the http proxy statement  and  export http proxy
my satellte syn was working

pls add this tip into the documentation.

regards rob

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