[Spacewalk-list] solaris2mpm errors

[Daryl Rose]

Cliff,

That's disappointing to hear.  Any suggestions on an alternative?

Thanks for the feedback Cliff.

Daryl


On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 3:25 AM, Cliff Perry <cperry at redhat.com> wrote:

> Solaris support isn't being actively maintained and we gave notice that
> Solaris, along with Monitoring has been deprecated with plans in future to
> remove those capabilities from Spacewalk.
>
> https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/ReleaseNotes22
> " The Spacewalk team is looking in future releases to drop support for
> Solaris clients and the Monitoring component of Spacewalk. They continue to
> be supported in their current state for the Spacewalk 2.2 release. Anyone
> currently using either of the capabilities may wish to consider
> alternatives for their needs. "
>
> So, if this is brand new, I'd recommend to look for alternatives, vs
> spending time to invest in making something work that won't last long. We
> know Solaris is broken and it is a moving target that each time it happens,
> we have react too and doesn't provide a good experience for users of it.
>
> Regards,
> Cliff
>
> On 05/11/14 21:48, Daryl Rose wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to setup Spacewalk so I patch my Solaris 10 servers.  I'm
>> trying to convert the patch cluster into mpm format, but I get the
>> following errors:
>>
>>     # solaris2mpm --tempdir=/usr/local/src --select-arch=sparc
>>     10_Recommended.zip
>>     Opening archive, this may take a while
>>     Error creating mpm for /usr/local/src/10_Recommended.zip:
>>     Traceback (most recent call last):
>>        File
>>     "/opt/redhat/rhn/solaris/lib/python2.4/site-packages/
>> rhnpush/solaris2mpm.py",
>>     line 219, in _run
>>          pkg_mpm = create_pkg_mpm(archive_parser, prefix=dir)
>>        File
>>     "/opt/redhat/rhn/solaris/lib/python2.4/site-packages/
>> rhnpush/solaris2mpm.py",
>>     line 435, in create_pkg_mpm
>>          dct = parse_pkginfo(pkginfo_str)
>>        File
>>     "/opt/redhat/rhn/solaris/lib/python2.4/site-packages/
>> rhnpush/solaris2mpm.py",
>>     line 473, in parse_pkginfo
>>          lines = pkginfo_str.splitlines()
>>     AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'splitlines'
>>
>>
>> Any help figuring out what is wrong is appreciated.
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>> Daryl
>>
>>
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