[Spacewalk-list] Seeing a couple of problems when trying to do updates

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Check generated primary.xml.gz for the base repo. I had the same problem 
recently, it contained "metadata packages=0"

On 23.04.2011 6:18, Brent Bolin wrote:
> Spacewalk 1.3
> centos 5.5 base 64bit
> centos 5.5 updates 64bit
>
> After download updates for the above two channels I need to remove
> files(why do i need to do this?)
>
> rm -rf /var/cache/rhn/repodata/$channel
>
> Then wait a couple of minutes for the directories to populate again -
> filelists.xml.gz  other.xml.gz  primary.xml.gz  repomd.xml
>
> Clean yum up on the client
> yum clean metadata
> yum clean all
>
> When I try to do updates I get dependency problems on a number of packages
>
> Error: Missing Dependency: libpopt.so.0()(64bit) is needed by package
> tux-3.2.18-9.fc6.x86_64 (installed)
>
> All related too libpopt.so.0()(64bit)
>
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