[Spacewalk-list] Client Tools 0.8 hal dependency.

[Miroslav Suchý]

On 03/03/2010 02:11 AM, Fraginhell wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I have just completed spacewalk 0.8 upgrade without any issues.
> I have also upgraded the 0.7 client tools channel to 0.8
> Our client systems are all Centos 5.3 so we don't have any 5.4
> channels or clients.
> On a 5.3 client I did a yum check-update to install the new 0.8 client
> tools and hit some dependency problems.
> I manually pushed python-dmidecode.x86_64 0:3.10.7-3.el5 into the
> client channel, but there is a dependency for hal 0.5.8.1-52 which I
> notice is part of 5.4
> Has anyone come across this issue, is it ok to push the hal into the
> channel as well? I don't want to end up in dependency hell!
>

This was done due
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=543543
So if you do not need all DMI info, you may install it with --nodeps
or wait few weeks as I'm working on removal of hal dependency right now.

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Miroslav Suchy
Red Hat Satellite Engineering