[Spacewalk-list] Problem on first installation

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 12:47:29PM +0100, Carlo Filippetto wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm new with Spacewalk.
> I'm able to install and make the first configuration on Centos 5.7,
> and version Spacewalk 1.6 + Postgress
> 
> I follow these guides:
> https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/UserDocs#Introduction
> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/PackageManagement/Spacewalk#head-e04eadc5ed664bd79068564af7d84662c3081b22
> 
> 
> 
> Now I'm tring to add channel but I receive always the same error when
> try to use
> 
> spacewalk-repo-sync
> 
> -----------------------------
> /usr/bin/spacewalk-repo-sync --channel centos5-updates-i386 \
> >                              --url http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/updates/i386/ \
> >
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/spacewalk-repo-sync", line 100, in ?
>     sys.exit(abs(main() or 0))
>   File "/usr/bin/spacewalk-repo-sync", line 93, in main
>     sync.sync()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/spacewalk/satellite_tools/reposync.py",
> line 103, in sync
>     self.import_packages(plugin, repo_id, url)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/spacewalk/satellite_tools/reposync.py",
> line 309, in import_packages
>     packages = plug.list_packages(filters)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/spacewalk/satellite_tools/repo_plugins/yum_src.py",
> line 149, in list_packages
>     self.sack.populate(self.repo, 'metadata', None, 0)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 168, in populate
>     if self._check_db_version(repo, mydbtype):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 226, in
> _check_db_version
>     return repo._check_db_version(mdtype)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1226,
> in _check_db_version
>     repoXML = self.repoXML
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1399, in <lambda>
>     repoXML = property(fget=lambda self: self._getRepoXML(),
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1395,
> in _getRepoXML
>     raise Errors.RepoError, msg
> yum.Errors.RepoError: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml)
> for repository: centos5-updates-i386. Please verify its path and try
> again
> ------------------

The command works just fine on my Spacewalk. Are you able to reach
the yum repo at all? What does

  # curl http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/updates/i386/repodata/repomd.xml

output?

-- 
Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat