[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk is injecting optional el6 rpm's into el5 kickstart

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 05:32:33PM -0700, William Clark wrote:
> Little background.  I am running Spacewalk 1.6, but this issue happened in 1.5 as well.  I have many channels (CentOS / OEL) and activation keys.  My kickstarts all seemed to work until recently.
> 
> Problem:  When I create a kickstart from a CentOS 5.X distribution, spacewalk is inserting the following line into the kickstart:
> 
> wget -P /tmp/rhn_rpms/optional http://myserver/download/package/6d7217f7e71aabccdaa69321001008fa9e575bd3/0/21/118490/libxml2-python-2.7.6-4.0.1.el6_2.1.x86_64.rpm http://myserver/download/package/918a482d9f47d1dd292a3017594322ca5c17d3c5/0/21/73353/pyOpenSSL-0.10-2.el6.x86_64.rpm http://myserver/download/package/faf38a2b9dd64b2b4ded673d0feddce7e4db83b8/0/21/118239/rhnlib-2.5.49-1.el5.noarch.rpm
> 
> Notice the libxml2-python and pyOpenSSL, both are el6, but this is an el5 kickstart and this causes mass issues.

Please check what channels are the

	libxml2-python-2.7.6-4.0.1.el6_2.1.x86_64.rpm
	pyOpenSSL-0.10-2.el6.x86_64.rpm

packages in. I suspect they are in fact in the version 5 channels (as
well) -- maybe they got there via rhn-clone-errata.py?

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Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat