[Spacewalk-list] JPackage repo problem when installing Spacewalk

[Michael Morgan]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 04:03:11PM +0200, Jan Pazdziora wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 03:55:28PM +0200, Jørgen Hysvær Langgåt wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Jan Pazdziora <jpazdziora at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 10:10:24AM +0200, Frank Mikkelsen Blohmé wrote:
> > >> Looks like the JPackage RPM repos have been removed/been destroyed or alike.
> > >> The web site www.jpackage.org<http://www.jpackage.org> is no more, it points towards zarb.org
> > >> It seems that all mirrors are also broken, there are no longer any jpackage RPM packages in them, just empty skeleton directory structures.
> > > The mirror http://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/jpackage/5.0/generic/free/
> > > still seems to be in good shape.
> > 
> > Thanks Jan, this helped.
> > 
> > I changed jpackage-generoic.repo into this:
> > 
> > # cat /etc/yum.repos.d/jpackage-generic.repo
> > [jpackage-generic]
> > name=JPackage generic
> > baseurl=http://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/jpackage/5.0/generic/free/
> > enabled=1
> > gpgcheck=1
> > gpgkey=http://www.jpackage.org/jpackage.asc
> > 
> > And now I'm able to install spacewalk.
> 
> That's strange, http://www.jpackage.org/jpackage.asc is not available
> either, so it should not get over the gpgcheck step. ;-)
> 
> -- 
> Jan Pazdziora
> Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat
> 
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It seems zarb.org had a hardware failure that took the JPackage site down. I'd guess the mirrors happily synced the empty repo and wiped the packages.

http://www.zarb.org/pipermail/jpackage-discuss/2012-October/015151.html

This is certainly troubling.

-Mike