[Spacewalk-list] 1.6 to 1.7 upgrade bug 869985 reappeared?

[Milan Zazrivec]

> I am attempting to upgrade from 1.6 to 1.7 and have encountered the
> following:
> 
> 'SPACEWALK-SCHEMA-1.6-TO-SPACEWALK-SCHEMA-1.7/007-RHNPACKAGEGROUP-TRIM.SQ
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> spacewalk-schema-1.6-to-spacewalk-schema-1.7/007-rhnPackageGroup-trim.sql
> 
> 
> 77722 rows updated.
> 
> update rhnpackagegroup set name = substr(name, 1, length(name)-1)
> *
> ERROR at line 1:
> ORA-00001: unique constraint (SPACEWALK.RHN_PACKAGE_GROUP_NAME_UQ) violated
> 
> 
> This appears to be a bug listed as fixed.
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=869985
> 
> Presuming it is the same issue clearly its not fixed or the repo has
> somehow reverted back which seems very unlikely. I am using
> spacewalk-repo-1.7-5.el5 pulled from
> http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/1.7/RHEL/5/x86_64/. Following the
> directions at https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToUpgrade17.

Yes, this bug was fixed for Spacewalk 1.8, i.e. you would not hit this
problem when upgrading from any version to Spacewalk 1.8. The problem
has not been backported to Spacewalk 1.7 packages, i.e. you either
can upgrade to something later or apply that fix manually.

-Milan Zázrivec