[Spacewalk-list] rhn_check uses HTTP repos instead of spacewalk software channel

[Scott Rakow]

Did you create a Distribution on your Spacewalk server and relate it to your
profile? I believe that is how Spacewalk/Cobbler knows where to pull the
RPM's from.

Scott

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 3:26 AM, Sascha Frey <sf at techfak.net> wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> I experienced problems kickstarting some clients. All clients that
> failed installing packages defined to activation keys are in the same
> subnet with restricted internet access (need a HTTP proxy there).
>
> After some network packet sniffing I discovered that these clients are
> trying to establish a HTTP connection to ftp.scientificlinux.org.
>
> All clients do that. Clients with internet access download the packages
> from the HTTP yum repositories instead of using the Spacewalk server's
> software channels.
>
> Setting enabled=0 in all .repo files in /etc/yum.repos.d solves this
> problem after the installation, but I didn't find a good solution for
> the kickstart process.
>
> The problem: rhn_check is called before the post scripts run.
> The files to modify aren't in place when pre scripts run.
>
> So my workaround is to write a pre installation script, which adds some
> commands to /tmp/ks.cfg just before rhn_check. These commands modify the
> .repo-files and disable these yum repos.
>
> This is a dirty hack.
> This can't be intended behaviour.
>
> Is there anything I missed in kickstart profile configuration?
>
>
>
> Thanks
> Sascha
>
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