[Spacewalk-list] Dependency errors on install

[Avi Miller]

Hi,

(Apologies for the vendor-specific answers here)

> On 4 Apr 2015, at 2:22 am, Irwin, Jeffrey R <jeff.irwin at perfect.com> wrote:
> 
> Ok, man this is trying.......so I created a new VM with OEL6, installed the repos, had horrible troubles getting epel repo to work.  Ended up being an issue with nss........yum update nss and epel works now.  Going well......not so fast.  Now I cannot install spacewalk-postgresql

Why not install Spacewalk from the Oracle repos directly? That way, you can get support for Spacewalk under your Oracle Linux support subscription too.

Installation instructions for Spacewalk on Oracle:

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37670_01/E58680/html/index.html

Also, as per the documentation, registering a system with ULN is not supported when running Spacewalk (both client and server) as the Spacewalk RPMs replace the ULN RPMs and break connectivity. Regardless of whether you run the Oracle build of Spacewalk or the upstream build, you need to only use public-yum.oracle.com to source your packages:

http://public-yum.oracle.com

Once Spacewalk is installed, you can sync directly from ULN without needing to register with ULN, as per:

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37670_01/E58680/html/sw22-config.html#sw22-channel-config-uln

Note this works in the upstream version of Spacewalk 2.2 as well. It's not specific to the Oracle build.

Hope that helps,
Avi

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