[Spacewalk-list] spacewalk 0.8 on CentOS 5.4 ... "yum update" fails

[Bushby, Bruce (London)(c)]

Hi
 
I've got a strange issue which I initially thought was caused by running
Spacewalk 0.8 on Fedora 12.
I have since installed Spacewalk 0.8 on CentOS 5.4 with the same
results.
 
I copied the CentOS dvd to disk (my on disk repo), added the various
"rhn client" rpms and rebuilt the repo. I then configured my kickstart
script to use the "on disk" dvd repo accessible
via http://<ip>/repo/centos/5.4-64
 
I then installed a CentOS 5.4 client and my postinstall script registers
the client to Spacewalk.....this all works as expected.
 
The client reboots, I login and I can see my CentOS repos:
[root at localhost ~]# yum repolist
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, rhnplugin
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
repo id                                                    repo name
status
centos-5.4-x86_64-centosplus                               CentOS
Enterprise Linux CentOSPlus (v. 5.4)
enabled:   135
centos-5.4-x86_64-extras                                   CentOS
Enterprise Linux Extras (v. 5.4)
enabled:   290
centos-5.4-x86_64-server                                   CentOS
Enterprise Linux (v. 5.4 for 64-bit x86_64)
enabled: 3,348
centos-5.4-x86_64-updates                                  CentOS
Enterprise Linux Updates (v. 5.4)
enabled:   731
repolist: 4,504
[root at localhost ~]#
 
 
However, I can't run "yum update" because it fails dependency checks. I
tracked this down to yum wanting to "update" the "coreutils"
package...but it complains other
packages have dependencies on "coreutils"....however this should happen
because I'm "updating" and not removing.
 
This is an example of the error I get if I try and "yum update
coreutils":
 
[root at localhost ~]# yum update coreutils
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, rhnplugin
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package coreutils.x86_64 0:5.97-23.el5_4.1 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: /usr/bin/env for package: readahead
--> Processing Dependency: /usr/bin/env for package: python
--> Processing Dependency: /usr/bin/env for package: m2crypto
--> Processing Dependency: /usr/bin/env for package: conman
--> Processing Dependency: /usr/bin/env for package: gamin-python
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
conman-0.1.9.2-8.el5.x86_64 from installed has depsolving problems
  --> Missing Dependency: /usr/bin/env is needed by package
conman-0.1.9.2-8.el5.x86_64 (installed)
gamin-python-0.1.7-8.el5.x86_64 from installed has depsolving problems
  --> Missing Dependency: /usr/bin/env is needed by package
gamin-python-0.1.7-8.el5.x86_64 (installed)
python-2.4.3-27.el5.x86_64 from installed has depsolving problems
  --> Missing Dependency: /usr/bin/env is needed by package
python-2.4.3-27.el5.x86_64 (installed)
m2crypto-0.16-6.el5.6.x86_64 from installed has depsolving problems
  --> Missing Dependency: /usr/bin/env is needed by package
m2crypto-0.16-6.el5.6.x86_64 (installed)
1:readahead-1.3-7.el5.x86_64 from installed has depsolving problems
  --> Missing Dependency: /usr/bin/env is needed by package
1:readahead-1.3-7.el5.x86_64 (installed)
Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/bin/env is needed by package
1:readahead-1.3-7.el5.x86_64 (installed)
Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/bin/env is needed by package
conman-0.1.9.2-8.el5.x86_64 (installed)
Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/bin/env is needed by package
gamin-python-0.1.7-8.el5.x86_64 (installed)
Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/bin/env is needed by package
python-2.4.3-27.el5.x86_64 (installed)
Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/bin/env is needed by package
m2crypto-0.16-6.el5.6.x86_64 (installed)
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: package-cleanup --problems
                        package-cleanup --dupes
                        rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
The program package-cleanup is found in the yum-utils package.
[root at localhost ~]#
 
 
 
Any ideas?  I have thoroughly cleaned all my yum cache...same results.
 
 
 
Bruce Bushby
Unix Engineering
Technology Group
Man Investments, 100 Lower Thames Street, London,EC3R 6DL
Desk: +44 (0) 207 144 3903
Mobile: +44 (0) 7887711769
 

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