[Spacewalk-list] Question on dependancies management when upgrading packages

[John Hodrien]

On Wed, 7 Sep 2011, Pierre Casenove wrote:

> I have a question about the dependancy management when we upgrade client
> packages from spacewalk: are the dependancies automatically installed or
> not?

Yes.  Your install request just maps to a yum command as far as I'm aware.

> Same question when installing package.  I've registered a rhel 5.4 client in
> spacewalk server with a base channel containing rhel 5.6 packages.  When I
> launched the upgrade of all the packages, the task failed with error
> "missing dependancy python-libs for python". I've installed pyhon-libs,
> relaunched the upgrade, it was successful. Python-libs was of course
> available in the base channel.  Is there a configuration error on my set up?

You'd want a proper trace of what it was trying to do.  I'd guess rhn_check
-vvvvv would give you what you needed.

jh