[Spacewalk-list] spacewalk provisioning through kickstart error

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 05:26:44PM +0000, Zulkifal Ahmad wrote:
> Hi Guys ! I have installed Spacewalk 1.6 on Centos 6.2. I am on LAN and has no access to internet so I downloaded all the packages from the mirrors and created a local repo . I did all the possible steps to make a base channel and then I made child channels for 
> EPEL 6
> Spacewalk 1.6 Client Tools
> Updates
> which I populated from the local repo.
>  
> So long story short , when I kickstart any system with only base channel selected in the kickstart profile , everything goes well, but when I include the child channels in my KS Profile then it throws an error.
> "Unable to find metada from repository (repomd.xml)"
>  
> I checked various blogs but could not resolve this issue.It seems that cobbler is unable to find the rpms which are already there. 
>  

Try to simplify the case. When you add the channel to an already
installed system and try a yum operation on it --- does it succeed?
What do the Repo Cache Status and Last Repo Build say on the WebUI on
the channel page?

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Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat