[Spacewalk-list] Heads up on CentOS 5.6 potential issue

[Tom Brown]

On 11 April 2011 09:23, James Hogarth <james.hogarth at gmail.com> wrote:
> Had a mail from someone asking for help about this so though I'd float
> it to the list archives in case others encounter it.
>
> CentOS 5.6 was released Friday and some of the 5.5 /updates/ are now
> of course in the 5.6 /os/ (base) area. Openssl was specifically
> mentioned but others are likely to be there as well.
>
> The md5sum for these differs since they were built different days on
> different hosts.
>
> Spacewalk-repo-sync makes use of NVREA of course to determine what to
> sync from upstream and consequently won't see the new package after
> the symlink change in upstream yum to point /5/ at /5.6/ instead of
> /5.5/ ...
>
> The consequence is new kickstarts might see discrepancies in checksums
> reported by the distro media versus the channels and have trouble
> installing.
>
> It's worth it at this point for those using CentOS5 to clear out their
> base channel and /updates/ channel and repopulate from the media and
> the /updates/ repo from an appropriate mirror.
>
> The same is likely to occur when SL make the release of 5.6 and do a
> similar switch.
>
> Hope this helps anyone else encountering this....

yes - and its something similar to this that caused my 'spacewalk 1.3
- rhnpush - error' thread.

packages with the same name but different checksums in the base and
updates 5.6 repo.