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

[Brent Bolin]

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 6:27 PM,  <bearwere at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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What do you mean?  Is this a configuration option?  Where?