[Spacewalk-list] Can't register a client with spacewalk 1.0

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 02:03:49PM +0200, Jan Pazdziora wrote:
> On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 01:29:34PM +0200, Jan Pazdziora wrote:
> > On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 12:38:12PM +0200, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
> > > >
> > > >I did that change after talking to Mirek who (IIRC) did the bump to 2
> > > >and change of the parameters type from list to hash as part of the
> > > >"rpm installation date" feature. We primarily did that for Fedoras,
> > > >but the worst thing which should have happened is that the
> > > >installation dates would not show up on the server.
> > > 
> > > Nope. Based on that capability is sent either list or dictionary. So
> > > worst thing which can happend is blow up of traceback due
> > > incompatible data structure, which is afaik happening right now.
> > 
> > Alright. Why doesn't Spacewalk 1.0 handle the list?
> 
> It seems the server compares the client capabilities to the type of
> the data sent, and that causes the mismatch.
> 
> I've now filed
> 
> 	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=589100
> 
> for the issue.

To address the issue on your client installation, please apply patch

--- /usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnreg.py.orig	2010-04-08 11:37:25.000000000 +0200
+++ /usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnreg.py	2010-05-05 14:05:05.000000000 +0200
@@ -472,7 +472,7 @@
    
 def sendPackages(systemId, packageList):
     s = rhnserver.RhnServer()
-    if not cfg['supportsExtendedPackageProfile'] == 2:
+    if not s.capabilities.hasCapability('xmlrpc.packages.extended_profile', 2):
         # for older satellites and hosted - convert to old format
         packageList = convertPackagesFromHashToList(packageList)
     s.registration.add_packages(systemId, packageList)

It's been also pushed to Spacewalk master as

http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=spacewalk.git;a=commitdiff;h=db3f1bd553304d4589d54d9d6ce6e45ef9d3915a

I shall try to get updated package to Spacewalk client repo soon.

I'm sorry for the problems caused.

-- 
Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat