[Spacewalk-list] coreutils don't update properly via spacewalk

[Scott Worthington]

On 4/10/2013 14:10, Jan Pazdziora wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 03:41:50PM +0000, Andy Ingham wrote:
>> Jan --
>>
>> The following is repeated 4 times at 20 second intervals within that log
>> on a sample host:
>>
>> [Tue Apr  9 09:25:52 2013] up2date
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/usr/sbin/rhn_check", line 385, in __run_action
>>     (status, message, data) = CheckCli.__do_call(method, params, kwargs)
>>   File "/usr/sbin/rhn_check", line 377, in __do_call
>>     method = getMethod.getMethod(method, "/usr/share/rhn/", "actions")
> [...]
>
>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 662, in
>> _baseurlSetup
>>     self.check()
>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 426, in
>> check
>>     'Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: %s' % self.id
>> <class 'yum.Errors.RepoError'>: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base
> So, may we assume that your yum is misconfigured and that you have
> something in /etc/yum.repos.d called "base" which does not have the
> baseurl set?
>

Isn't best practice to alter /etc/yum.conf and change variable
"reposdir" to /etc/yum.repos.d/custom/ and then use symlinks from
/etc/yum.repos.d/custom/ back to /etc/yum.repos.d/ for repos outside of
your Spacewalk? (also mkdir /etc/yum.repos.d/custom)

Perhaps that step wasn't performed on clients and, like Jan said, you
are picking up a repo config in /etc/yum.repos.d/.

#cat /etc/yum.conf

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
reposdir=/etc/yum.repos.d/custom/
keepcache=0
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
distroverpkg=redhat-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=1
plugins=1
#bugtracker_url=http://bugs.centos.org/set_project.php?project_id=16&ref=http://bugs.centos.org/bug_report_page.php?category=yum

# Note: yum-RHN-plugin doesn't honor this.
metadata_expire=1h

# Allow only up to 3 kernels to be installed at one time
installonly_limit = 3

# PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
# in /etc/yum.repos.d/custom