[Spacewalk-list] rhn-plugin error

[Crook, Parker]

After getting all of the spacewalk client tools packages added to the
package list for kickstarting CentOS 5.4 clients, I noticed that yum was
broken on my kickstarted machines:

 

[root at localhost ~]# yum update

Loaded plugins: changelog, fastestmirror, protect-packages, rhnplugin

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?

    yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)

  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 309, in user_main

    errcode = main(args)

  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 157, in main

    base.getOptionsConfig(args)

  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 187, in getOptionsConfig

    self.conf

  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 664, in
<lambda>

    conf = property(fget=lambda self: self._getConfig(),

  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 253, in
_getConfig

    self.plugins.run('init')

  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 179, in run

    func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))

  File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/rhnplugin.py", line 145, in init_hook

    repo = RhnRepo(channel)

  File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/rhnplugin.py", line 243, in __init__

    self.metadata_cookie = 'cookie'

AttributeError: can't set attribute

 

So I looked around and found out that if you comment out the lines below (in
/usr/lib/yum-plugins/rhnplugin.py), all is well:

        self.metadata_cookie = 'cookie'

        self.metadata_expire = 0

 

So I went ahead and added the following sed script to my kickstart file in
order to take care of this during provisioning:

 

sed -i -e 's/.*self\.metadata_cookie.*/#&/;s/.*self\.metadata_expire.*/#&/;'
/usr/lib/yum-plugins/rhnplugin.py

 

Anybody else out there that has run across this?  Is this a viable solution
to the problem?  if so I hope this helps someone else.

 

-PC 

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