[Spacewalk-list] Cannot rhnpush --force a package

[James Hogarth]

On 19 January 2010 16:01, James Hogarth <james.hogarth at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi,
>
> I enabled forcing a package in /etc/rhn/default/rhn_server.conf to allow
> overwriting of RPM packages (so that our build doesn't fail if it gets
> kicked off and a package of that SVN version already is built in the repos).
>
> Initially uploading an already existant package I got:
>
> Error Message:
>     ORA-00001: unique constraint (SPACEWALK.RHN_CNP_CID_NID_UQ) violated
> ORA-06512: at "SPACEWALK.RHN_CHANNEL", line 1120
> ORA-06512: at line 1
> Error Class Code: 23
> Error Class Info: Could not update database entry.
>
> Then trying rhnpush --force I got:
>
> Error Message:
>     Package Upload Failed
> Error Class Code: 55
> Error Class Info:
>      The --force rhnpush option is disabled on this server.
>      Please contact your Satellite administrator for more help.
>
> After enabling on the spacewalk server (and restarting the server) I now
> get:
>
> Error Message:
>     ORA-00001: unique constraint (SPACEWALK.RHN_CNP_CID_NID_UQ) violated
> ORA-06512: at "SPACEWALK.RHN_CHANNEL", line 1120
> ORA-06512: at line 1
> Error Class Code: 23
> Error Class Info: Could not update database entry.
>
> Looks like a bug - or is it intentional that --force doesn't working on
> packages that already exist?
>
> James
>


no one knows what the correct behaviour should be on a forced rhnpush?

James