[Spacewalk-list] Kickstart falling in spacewalk 1.5

André Freitas andre-m-freitas at ext.ptinovacao.pt
Fri Sep 2 11:08:59 UTC 2011


No i didn't add anything of spacewalk to the base channel (i use a child 
repo that gets the information form spacewalk directly using 
spacewalk-repo-sync).

How can see/change the metadata of the distribution tree? The strange is 
that when i used spacewalk 1.4 i din't have this problem.

On 09/01/2011 03:43 PM, Jonathan DeHaan wrote:
> Anaconda ignores the repository metadata that is provided by spacewalk
> for the base channel and only uses the metadata in the distribution
> tree. If you add any packages to the base channel, you have to recreate
> the metadata and put it in the distribution tree, or anaconda won't see it.
>
> After the install, yum correctly pulls metadata for the base channel
> from spacewalk directly.
>
> Jonathan
>
> On 09/01/2011 08:38 AM, André Freitas wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> i have spacewalk 1.5 installed in a machine that has fedora 15 as it
>> OS. I have created the fedora 15 distribution in spacewalk and created
>> the following repos (base and child ones):  Fedora 15 64-bits, Fedora
>> 15 Updates 64-bits, RPMFusion Free 64-bits, RPMFusion Free Updates
>> 64-bits, RPMFusion NonFree 64-bits, RPMFusion NonFree Updates 64-bits
>> and Spacewalk-Client 1.5 64-bits.
>> I have created a minimum kickstart to install fedora. If i put the
>> following packages to install in the kickstart
>>
>> rhn-client-tools
>> rhn-check
>> rhn-setup
>> rhnsd
>> m2crypto
>> yum-rhn-plugin
>> rhncfg-actions
>> wget
>> osad
>>
>> and try to use this kickstart in PXE, i get the information that some
>> of the dependencies doesn't exit. The problem is that i confirm that
>> all the packages are in the repos associated to the kickstart and
>> activation key. If i remove the packages from the kickstart and use it
>> to install in a target machine, i don't have problems when i try to
>> "yum install" those packages after the installation (i edit yum.conf
>> so that i have all the same repos that spacewalk uses to collect
>> information when using spacewalk-repo-sync).
>> Is there any log where i can try to see (in spacewalk-server) what is
>> falling in the installation of the kickstart with the above packages?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> André Freitas
>>
>>
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