[Spacewalk-list] Repo-Sync not working on 1.5 (PostgreSQL)

[Michael Mraka]

Dirk Lohbeck wrote:
% Hi,
% 
% I successfully setup Spacewalk 1.5 with PostgreSQL on a CentOS 5.6 (64 bit)
% VM.
% But when I try to add content, repo-sync fails me.
% I have added a Centos6 x86_64 Channel, linked to the official Centos6-x86_64
% Repository, together with correct GPG key and fingerprint.
% The Spacewalk VM is sitting behing a proxy, whose setting I have applied
% system wide (/etc/profile)
% and also to the Spacewalk GUI.
% I can access the repository's URL without problem.
% 
% But when try to actually issue a sync request (either via GUI or with
% spacewalk-repo-sync)
% it will always fail instantly with this error:
% ----------
% [root at det-repos-1 repodata]# spacewalk-repo-sync -c centos6-x86_64 --url
% http://mirror.centos.org/centos-6/6/os/x86_64/ --type yum
% Traceback (most recent call last):
...
%   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1402, in
% _getRepoXML
%     raise Errors.RepoError, msg
% yum.Errors.RepoError: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for
% repository: centos6-x86_64. Please verify its path and try again
% ----------

There must be an error in your proxy settings.
The very same setup works on my test machine.

Regards,

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Michael Mráka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat