[Spacewalk-list] Custom child channel and spacewalk-repo-sync on 1.0

[Michael Mraka]

Daniel Wittenberg wrote:
% Anyone else using custom repos?  I have one setup for RPMForge
% according to the example spacewalk docs, and it does the same thing.
% There is nothing in /var/cache/rhn/repodata/<channel>, except for the
% Base OS and the Updates channel.  I create the links but then still
% can't download packages via yum, but I discovered tonight that it will
% let you download packages via the web interface, so not sure why web
% knows how to find them yet yum can't.
% 
% Any ideas where to even look?  Logs don't appear to show anything
% related except http logs showing the get coming in, appears to go off
% to tomcat, a Download*.do command, but I don't see any errors in
% catalina.out.
% 
% Any help appreciated, only thing keep this guy from being production
% at this point :(
% 
% Oh, and yes, I have tried deleting and re-creating the channels and
% nothing helps, only the ones I'm trying to sync from local yum repo
% fail, even ones done "by the book"

Does channel details page (Channel -> 'custom-64') show resonable value
for 'Last Repo Build:'?
Does server run taskomatic service?
Anything suspicious in /var/log/rhn/rhn_taskomatic_daemon.log?



Regards,

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Michael Mráka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat