[Spacewalk-list] solaris2mpm Error

[Michael Mraka]

Dave Cushman wrote:
% I'm attempting to populate a channel with Solaris patches in order to
% test the patching of a few i386 Solaris clients I have.  Following the
% directions on the wiki, I've created a channel in the web interface, and
% At the Spacewalk server, I'm attempting to run the 'solaris2mpm' command
% against the patch cluster from Oracle
% (10_x86_Recommended_CPU_2014-10.zip).  After some time, the command
% returns the following error, "Error creating mpm for <patch cluster
% name>.zip: OverflowError('int exceeds XML-RPC limits',)".

Unfortulatelly XMLRPC limits int values to 32-bit. This means solaris2mpm
won't work for a file larger than 2GiB (2^31). And as monitoring has been
dropped from current Spacewalk master it will hardly ever be fixed /
workarounded :(.


% I'm running Spacewalk version 2.2 on a CentOS 6.6 VM.  I've assigned 4GB
% of RAM and 2 cpus to the machine, and I have plenty of hard drive space.
% I'm using PostgreSQL for the database.
% 
% Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

Regards,

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Michael Mráka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat