[Spacewalk-list] Repo woes

Tue Aug 6 12:56:49 UTC 2013

When you created the channel befoee did you use ia or x86_64..I have 32bit
rpms in my x86_64 repo..so try creating a new repo and assign the arch as
86_64 and sync
On Aug 6, 2013 8:51 AM, "Dimitri Yioulos" <dyioulos at onpointfc.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the reply, Paul.
>
> Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the case for me.  If
> I run the sync from the command line, it completes in
> seconds with the X86_64 error message (syncing from the GUI
> also doesn't work, obviously).  Also, in the "Full Software
> Channel List", while other channels show the number of
> packages acquired during the sync, the Samba channel shows
> a zero.    It seems I've tried every combination of entry
> when creating the channel/repo, and it errors, one way or
> the other.  What really ticks me off is that I once had the
> channel working.  I just don't remember how.  Arrrrgh!
>
> Dimitri
>
>
> On Monday 05 August 2013 7:07:18 pm Paul Robert Marino
> wrote:
> > The error message isn't wrong the repo on the site is
> > just strange. All that means is it can't sync the X86_64
> > packages so it will ignore them the rest should sync
> > fine.
> >
> > I get the same error from HP's ProLiant repos because it
> > contains source rpms however the channels in spacewalk
> > still work despite the errors.
> >
> >
> >
> > -- Sent from my HP Pre3
> >
> > On Aug 5, 2013 18:10, Thomas Foster
> > <thomas.foster80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > change the architecture to x86_64 for the repo..then try
> > and sync
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Dimitri Yioulos
> > <dyioulos at onpointfc.com> wrote:
> >
> > On the Spacewalk server?
> >
> >  With respect, what difference should it make?  The
> > Spacewalk server is built on CentOS 6, but has Spacewalk
> > repos for CentOS 5 that sync just fine.
> >
> >  Dimitri
> >
> >  On Monday 05 August 2013 4:34:10 pm Thomas Foster wrote:
> >  > What's the output of yum repolist ?
> >  >
> >  > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Dimitri Yioulos
> >
> >  <dyioulos at onpointfc.com>wrote:
> >  > > Thomas,
> >  > >
> >  > > Yes, and yes.
> >  > >
> >  > > Dimitri
> >  > >
> >  > > On Monday 05 August 2013 4:00:26 pm Thomas Foster
> wrote:
> >  > > > Did you just add the repo?  If so, did you yum
> >  > > > clean metadata?
> >  > > >
> >  > > > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Lewis Donofrio
> >  > >
> >  > > <lewis.donofrio at gmail.com>wrote:
> >  > > > > I'm new here but why not use 2nd party Centos
> >  > > > > repo's for samba?
> >  > > > >
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> >  > > > > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Dimitri Yioulos
> >  > >
> >  > > <dyioulos at onpointfc.com>wrote:
> >  > > > >> H, all.
> >  > > > >>
> >  > > > >> I recently upgraded Spacewalk to the latest and
> >  > > > >> greatest from version 1.8.  Unfortunately, the
> >  > > > >> upgrade didn't go well, and all of my settings
> >  > > > >> were lost.  The silver lining here is that, by
> >  > > > >> recreating everything, I learned a lot (or, at
> >  > > > >> least, refreshed my memory).
> >  > > > >>
> >  > > > >> However, I'm having a problem getting on
> >  > > > >> recreated cahnnel/repo working.  Many of our
> >  > > > >> Linux boxes use Samba; the packages come from
> >  > > > >> Sernet.  I created the channel and repo for my
> >  > > > >> CentOS 5 systems, but the repo won't sync. When
> >  > > > >> I try to sync from the command line, here's the
> >  > > > >> output I get:
> >  > > > >>
> >  > > > >> spacewalk-repo-sync --channel sernet-samba-el5
> >  > > > >> --type yum Repo URL:
> >  > > > >> http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/3.6/rhel/5
> >  > > > >> Packages in repo:                22
> >  > > > >> Packages already synced:          0
> >  > > > >> Packages to sync:                22
> >  > > > >> 1/22 : samba3-utils-3.6.17-45.el5-0.x86_64
> >  > > > >> 2/22 : samba3-winbind-3.6.17-45.el5-0.x86_64
> >  > > > >> 3/22 :
> >  > > > >> libsmbclient-devel-3.6.17-45.el5-0.x86_64 4/22
> >  > > > >> : libwbclient0-32bit-3.6.17-45.el5-0.i386 5/22
> >  > > > >> : libwbclient-devel-3.6.17-45.el5-0.x86_64 6/22
> >  > > > >> : samba3-doc-3.6.17-45.el5-0.x86_64 7/22 :
> >  > > > >> libwbclient0-3.6.17-45.el5-0.x86_64 8/22 :
> >  > > > >> samba3-3.6.17-45.el5-0.x86_64
> >  > > > >> 9/22 : samba3-debuginfo-3.6.17-45.el5-0.x86_64
> >  > > > >> 10/22 : samba3-client-3.6.17-45.el5-0.x86_64
> >  > > > >> 11/22 : libsmbclient0-3.6.17-45.el5-0.x86_64
> >  > > > >> 12/22 :
> >  > > > >> samba3-winbind-32bit-3.6.17-45.el5-0.i386 13/22
> >  > > > >> : samba3-winbind-3.6.17-45.el5-0.i386 14/22 :
> >  > > > >> libwbclient0-3.6.17-45.el5-0.i386 15/22 :
> >  > > > >> samba3-3.6.17-45.el5-0.i386
> >  > > > >> 16/22 : samba3-client-3.6.17-45.el5-0.i386
> >  > > > >> 17/22 : samba3-debuginfo-3.6.17-45.el5-0.i386
> >  > > > >> 18/22 : libsmbclient-devel-3.6.17-45.el5-0.i386
> >  > > > >> 19/22 : samba3-doc-3.6.17-45.el5-0.i386
> >  > > > >> 20/22 : libsmbclient0-3.6.17-45.el5-0.i386
> >  > > > >> 21/22 : samba3-utils-3.6.17-45.el5-0.i386
> >  > > > >> 22/22 : libwbclient-devel-3.6.17-45.el5-0.i386
> >  > > > >> Linking packages to channel.
> >  > > > >> ERROR: Package arch x86_64 incompatible with
> >  > > > >> channel sernet-samba-el5
> >  > > > >> Sync completed.
> >  > > > >> Total time: 0:00:06
> >  > > > >>
> >  > > > >> The machines to be updated are 32-bit.  I chose
> >  > > > >> IA-32 as the Architecture, and the repo url is
> >  > > > >> http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/3.6/rhel/5.  If
> >  > > > >> I make it
> >  > > > >> http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/3.6/rhel/5/i386,
> >  > > > >> I get "ERROR: Cannot retrieve repository
> >  > > > >> metadata (repomd.xml) for repostory:
> >  > > > >> sernet-samba-el5. Please verify its path and
> >  > > > >> try again.
> >  > > > >>
> >  > > > >> What's frustrating is that I did have this
> >  > > > >> working before. Any help would be greatly
> >  > > > >> appreciated.
> >  > > > >>
> >  > > > >> Dimitri
> >  > > > >>
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