[Spacewalk-list] Repo woes

[Dimitri Yioulos]

Michael,

OK, I'll clone the x86_64 channel.  Do I then have to select 
a repository, or does the cloning process handle that?  If 
it doesn't, do I choose the x86_64 repo that I created 
earlier?

Dimitri


On Tuesday 06 August 2013 9:31:22 am Michael Mraka wrote:
> Dimitri Yioulos 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!
>
> This repo contains both for x86_64 abd i386 packages.
> So you have to sync it into x86_64 channel.
> Then you can clone that x86_64 channel as an i386 channel
> (which will be child of your el5 base channel) and it
> will clone i386 packages only.
>
> ...
> % >  > > > >> 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
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Michael Mráka
> Satellite Engineering, Red Hat
>
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