[Spacewalk-list] Bare Metal Provision Through Proxy

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 01:28:34PM +0000, Wojtak, Greg (Superfly) wrote:
> That makes sense.  I've given it another try and I get to the point in the
> kickstart where the filesystems are created, then it pulls down the repo
> information.
> 
> I get the following error (have to hit Ctrl+Alt+F3 to see it):
> 
> WARNING : Failed to get
> http://proxy.fqdn.tld/ks/dist/child/centos-6-x86_64-proxy.fqdn.tld-client/C
> entOS_6_x86_64-bit/repodata/repomd.xml from mirror 1/1, or downloaded file
> is corrupt.
> 
> Apparently here's what's happening - the spacewalk host's name, which
> happens to be 'spacewalk,' is being replaced in that entire string with
> proxy.fqdn.tld in all instances.  I have verified I can download the
> repomd.xml by browsing to
> http://proxy.fqdn.tld/ks/dist/child/centos-6-x86_64-spacewalk-client/CentOS
> _6_x86_64-64-bit/repodata/repomd.xml
> 
> I'm not really sure what to do in this case.  Do I need to rename the
> spacewalk-client channel/repo?  Is this a bug or expected behavior with
> the spacewalk server name called spacewalk?

So, does wgetting

	http://spacewalk.fqdn.tld/ks/dist/child/centos-6-x86_64-spacewalk-client/CentOS_6_x86_64-64-bit/repodata/repomd.xml

(as opposed to proxy.fqdn.tld) actually work?

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