[Spacewalk-list] Fedora 12 client & spacewalk yum issue

[Bushby, Bruce (London)(c)]

Hi
 
I've searched all the email I've received since the release of Fedora 12
and I can't find any reference to an issue with fedora 12 yum being
incompatible with spacewalk.
 
I've installed spacewalk 0.7 on Fedora 7.
 
I then register a fedora 12 client to the spacewalk (0.7 running on
fedora 12).....rhnreg completes without issues and I can see my fedora
12 client in my spacewalk UI.
 
I then clean (on the client) my yum cache, headers, metadata etc etc, I
finally run yum clean all and then I run "yum repolist" ( still on the
fedora 12 client) and I get (debug set to 9 in /etc/yum.conf):
 
[root at tlonxeng ~]#
[root at tlonxeng ~]# yum repolist
Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
Not loading "blacklist" plugin, as it is disabled
Loading "presto" plugin
Loading "refresh-packagekit" plugin
Not loading "whiteout" plugin, as it is disabled
Running "config" handler for "presto" plugin
Config time: 0.079
Running "init" handler for "rhnplugin" plugin
Looking for repo options for [test-channel]
Yum Version: 3.2.22
COMMAND: yum repolist
Installroot: /
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository:
test-channel. Please verify its path and try again
[root at tlonxeng ~]#
 
 
 
I then ran a network trace while I issued the same commands on the same
"fedora 12 client" and a working "rhel 5.3 client"....both registered to
the same spacewalk (0.7 on F12) ....the two clients conduct a very
different dialogue.
 
Basic summary is:
fedora 12 client runs (via methodName)
  update2.login
  update2.listChannels
  update2.login
  update2.login
  update2.login
 
rhel 5.3 client runs (via methodName)
   update2.listChannels
   GET /XMLRPC/GET-REQ/test-channel/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1\r\n
   GET /XMLRPC/GET-REQ/test-channel/repodata/primary.xml.gz HTTP/1.1\r\n
 
 
 
Differences in yum versions:
fedora 12 client:
   [root at tlonxeng ~]# rpm -qa | grep yum
   yum-utils-1.1.23-3.fc12.noarch
   yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-14.fc12.x86_64
   yum-presto-0.6.1-1.fc12.noarch
   yum-rhn-plugin-0.7.6-1.fc12.noarch
   yum-3.2.22-20.el5.centos.noarch
   PackageKit-yum-0.5.4-0.1.20091029git.fc12.x86_64
   PackageKit-yum-plugin-0.5.4-0.1.20091029git.fc12.x86_64
   anaconda-yum-plugins-1.0-5.fc12.noarch
   [root at tlonxeng ~]#
 
 
rhel 5.3 client:
   [root at tloninzerotouch ~]# rpm -qa | grep yum
   yum-security-1.1.16-13.el5
   yum-rhn-plugin-0.5.3-30.el5
   yum-updatesd-0.9-2.el5
   yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-2.el5
   yum-3.2.22-20.el5
   [root at tloninzerotouch ~]#
 
 
Is it a known issue whereby Fedora 12 (presumably yum) is not able to
talk to spacewalk 0.7...and at a guess any version of spacewalk (I've
not yet tried 0.8.36-1)
 
 
Bruce Bushby
Unix Engineering
Technology Group
Desk: +44 (0) 207 144 3903
Mobile: +44 (0) 7887711769
 

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