[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk installation woes

[lee]

On 01/05/2011 01:26 PM, Jan Pazdziora wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 01:18:07PM -0700, Chris Stevens wrote:
>> I'm following this guide to install a spacewalk server:
>>
>> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/PackageManagement/Spacewalk
>>
>> But I am running into a problem at step 5.2.  Instead of getting to a SQL>  prompt I am receiving the following error message:
> Well, reviewing that page, I can see among others:
>
> 	Before configuring the Oracle database, we need to pull
> 	some packages from the Spacewalk Yum repository. Edit
> 	/etc/yum.repos.d/spacewalk.repo:
>
> 	[spacewalk]
> 	name=Spacewalk for Enterprise Linux - $basearch
> 	baseurl=http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.0/RHEL/5/$basearch/
>
> So even if you are installing Spacewalk 1.2 (which I assume you do),
> if you follow the document on wiki.centos.org you will have packages
> from Spacewalk 1.0 installed at this point.
>
> And I really have no idea how it affects the resulting installation.
>
Hi..

Well I followed the centos installation and noticed this "error" myself, 
only
when I ran into a bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498686

which a fixed and everything worked. So yip needs maybe a change on that....

> I'm really not happy about people copying the content from
>
> 	https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToInstall
>
> and other referenced pages and then *not* keeping those copies
> up-to-date. I stopped reading that CentOS document when I found out
> that it's old and not correct. I'd recommend you do the same and just
> use the documentation on https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki.
>
> Yours,
>

Regards
Lee