[Spacewalk-list] solaris2mpm Error

[Daryl Rose]

Dave,
As a work around, you can unzip the patch cluster, zip up the individual patches and then run the solaris2mpm command on the individual zipped patches.  This is how I resolved this issue.
Daryl> Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 08:44:49 +0100
> From: michael.mraka at redhat.com
> To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] solaris2mpm Error
> 
> 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,
> 
> --
> Michael Mráka
> Satellite Engineering, Red Hat
> 
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