[Spacewalk-list] spacewalk error with Oracle Linux 5

[Michael Mraka]

Sean Roe wrote:
% Hi All,
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% I have a spacewalk install that is working great except when I use it for package management of oracle linux 5.4 64 bit version.  I have been unable to do any updates with these servers.
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% I am getting this error with all of my Oracle Linux 5 64 bit clients when I run rhn_check on the client
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% The client completed this action on 09/ 3/13 10:29:29 AM MST.
% Client execution returned "Error while executing packages action: Transaction Check Error: file /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date from install of up2date-5.10.1-41.20.el5.x86_64 conflicts with file from package rhn-client-tools-1.9.10-1.el5.noarch file /usr/share/rhn/RHNS-CA-CERT from install of up2date-5.10.1-41.20.el5.x86_64 conflicts with file from package rhn-client-tools-1.9.10-1.el5.noarch file /usr/share/rhn/__init__.pyc from install of up2date-5.10.1-41.20.el5.x86_64 conflicts with file from package rhn-client-tools-1.9.10-1.el5.noarch file /usr/share/rhn/__init__.pyo from install of up2date-5.10.1-41.20.el5.x86_64 conflicts with file from package rhn-client-tools-1.9.10-1.el5.noarch file /usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/__init__.pyc from install of up2date-5.10.1-41.20.el5.x86_64 conflicts with file from package rhn-client-tools-1.9.10-1.el5.noarch file /usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/__init__.pyo from install of up2date-5.10.1-41.20.el5.x86_64 conflicts with file from package rhn-client-tools-1.9.10-1.el5.noarch file /usr/s" (code -1)
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% I am not sure how to fix this so any guidance would be helpful.

Hi Sean,

AFAIK Oracle Linux 5 uses 'up2date' to update packages from their
Unbreakable Linux Network (it's the old way originaly used in RHEL4).
While RHEL5 and other clones (incl. Centos and Scientific Linux) uses
'yum'. And these two packages conflicts with each other.

Solution is to remove up2date and it's dependencies and install yum +
rhn-clients-tool, e.g see
https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/2012-October/msg00149.html


Regards,

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Michael Mráka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat