[Spacewalk-list] Support for Fedora 18 clients using Spacewalk 1.8?
Jon Miller
jonebird at gmail.com
Thu Jan 24 21:49:43 UTC 2013
(As I inch closer to a solution, I'll keep replying here... tell me if I
should stop)
My current theory, as to why I can't seem to pull down "rhnlib" and
"spacewalk-koan" from my Spacewalk channel is that my distribution's
repodata/ was created from the original FC18 DVD which wouldn't have those
two packages. The implication is that I've setup my distribution
incorrectly or I've missed a step? Does that pretty plausible? If so, any
ideas / suggestions about getting around that?
Here is how I setup my distribution:
1. Create a Distribution Path
- Need to keep distributions available to enable kickstarts
#+begin_src shell
sudo mkdir -p /var/satellite/distros/fedora18-x86_64
cd /local/mnt/workspace/isos
sudo mount -o loop Fedora-18-x86_64-DVD.iso /mnt
sudo rsync -a --exclude="*.rpm" /mnt/ /var/satellite/distros/fedora18-x86_64
sudo umount /mnt
#+end_src
2. Create a Kickstart Distribution in Spacewalk (Systems -> Kickstart ->
Distributions -> "create new distribution")
a. Enter the fields using the information from the ISO mount point
created
+ Distribution Label: fedora-18-x86_64
+ Tree Path: /var/satellite/distros/fedora18-x86_64
+ Base Channel: Fedora 18 Core x86_64
+ Installer Generation: Fedora
b. Submit via "Create Kickstart Distribution"
Thanks,
Jon Miller
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Jon Miller <jonebird at gmail.com> wrote:
> Okay, next test... trying to simplify my question / issue by taking
> kickstart out of the equation. I believe the real question is why are the
> packages I uploaded via "rhnpush" not available to my client? This time
> around, I kickstarted a machine and it was setup with the normal Fedora
> repos available and I installed rhnlib & spacewalk-koan, registered the
> client to my Spacewalk server so that I would also have it as a repo, then
> disabled the Fedora repos, erased rhnlib & spacewalk-koan and finally
> testing that I can not find those packages on my Spacewalk server from a
> client perspective. Here is the puzzling part: If I go to my FC18 channel
> in the UI, click on packages and then search for spacewalk I find the
> spacewalk-koan package. I can even click the download from the UI.
>
> So, the real question is how can I upload a package via rhnpush, see it
> available within the UI but client not see it as being available?
> My rhnpush command: rhnpush -u "${SPACEWALK_USER}" -p "${SPACEWALK_PASS}"
> -v --channel=$CHANNEL --server=http://localhost --dir=$dir
>
> Thanks,
> Jon Miller
>
> P.S. My procedure to help isolate the client using only the spacewalk repo:
> $ yum repolist
> repo id repo name
> status
> fedora/18/x86_64 Fedora 18 - x86_64
> 33,868
> updates/18/x86_64 Fedora 18 - x86_64 - Updates
> 9,074
> repolist: 42,942
> repolist: 47,120
> $ yum -y install rhnlib spacewalk-koan
> $ rhnreg_ks --activationkey=2-espresso-test --username admin --password
> mypass --serverUrl http://spacewalk.example.com/XMLRPC
> $ yum repolist
> repo id repo name
> status
> fedora/18/x86_64 Fedora 18 - x86_64
> 33,868
> fedora18-x86_64 Fedora 18 Core x86_64
> 4,178
> updates/18/x86_64 Fedora 18 - x86_64 - Updates
> 9,074
> $ sed -i 's/enabled=1/enabled=0/g' /etc/yum.repos.d/*repo
> $ yum repolist
> repo id repo name
> status
> fedora18-x86_64 Fedora 18 Core x86_64
> 4,178
> repolist: 4,178
> $ yum -y erase rhnlib spacewalk-koan
> $ yum search rhnlib spacewalk-koan
> Warning: No matches found for: rhnlib
> Warning: No matches found for: spacewalk-koan
> No Matches found
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Jon Miller <jonebird at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm hoping by attaching some extra KS logs, captured during a kickstart,
>> that someone would be able to notice something about not being able to use
>> the "rhnlib" and "spacewalk-koan" RPMs.
>>
>> Any ideas or suggests are appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jon Miller
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Jon Miller <jonebird at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Of the required client packages, "pyOpenSSL" and "libxml2-python" were
>>> available from the base set of packages on the 4G DVD where as "rhnlib" and
>>> "spacewalk-koan" were not. I'm able to kickstart a FC18 client but it is
>>> obviously not registering with Spacewalk automatically. I then used the yum
>>> command "yum install --downloadonly --downloaddir=/tmp rhnlib
>>> spacewalk-koan" to get a local copy of the missing RPMs along with their
>>> dependencies. Finally, I re-used the rhnpush command to upload an extra 28
>>> packages into my FC18 channel and while I can confirm they are there via
>>> the Spacealk UI, re-kickstarting still complains about missing the same two
>>> packages.
>>>
>>> Is there some sort of sync, cache flush or the like that I need to
>>> perform before a new kickstart can see that those packages are now
>>> available for installation?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Jon Miller
>>>
>>> #------ More Details about what I did to resolve my dependencies --------
>>> # From the freshly installed FC18 client
>>> mkdir /tmp/rmps && yum install -y --downloadonly --downloaddir=/tmp/rmps
>>> rhnlib spacewalk-koan
>>> # Then from your Spacewalk server, scp those RPMs to your current
>>> directory:
>>> CHANNEL=fedora18-x86_64 # Your channel probably varies from mine
>>> read -p "What is your spacewalk user name: " -e -i "admin-crad"
>>> SPACEWALK_USER
>>> read -p "What is your spacewalk ${SPACEWALK_USER} password: " -s -e
>>> SPACEWALK_PASS
>>> rhnpush -u "${SPACEWALK_USER}" -p "${SPACEWALK_PASS}" -v
>>> --channel=$CHANNEL --server=http://localhost --dir=.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 1:40 AM, Jan Pazdziora <jpazdziora at redhat.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 10:32:21AM +0100, Miroslav Suchy wrote:
>>>> > On 19.1.2013 03:28, Jon Miller wrote:
>>>> > >I tried looking for available client download URLs but was
>>>> unsuccessful.
>>>> > >What is the current timeline for making those packages available?
>>>> >
>>>> > Spacewalk client is already part of Fedora. So it is already
>>>> > available there (and also in rawhide).
>>>> > Just do:
>>>> > yum groupinstall 'Spacewalk Client'
>>>>
>>>> Nightly client repos are now available for Fedora 18 as well:
>>>>
>>>> http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/nightly-client/Fedora/18/
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Jan Pazdziora
>>>> Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>
>
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